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By chance, some babies with congenital abnormalities will be born each year to mothers who are being treated for epilepsy. However, after encountering six babies with cleft lip and palate who had epileptic mothers, the question arose whether factors other than chance might be operating. Of these six children, two had ventricular septal defects, and all had minor skull and facial abnormalities apart from the cleft lip and palate.
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Meadow, S.R. (1970). Congenital Abnormalities and Anticonvulsant Drugs. In: Persaud, T.V.N. (eds) Problems of Birth Defects. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6621-8_35
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