Thoraco-abdominal enteric duplication with meningocele,skeletal anomalies and dextrocardia |
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| Authors: | Y. G. Wolf P. Merlob G. Horev A. Litwin S. Katz |
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| Affiliation: | (1) Present address: Department of Paediatric Surgery, Hadassah University Hospital, POB 12000, 91120 Jerusalem, Israel;(2) Department of Paediatric Radiology, Hadassah University Hospital, POB 12000, 91120 Jerusalem, Israel;(3) Department of Neonatology, Beilinson Medical Centre, Petah Tikva, Israel |
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| Abstract: | We describe an infant with an enteric thoracoabdominal duplication arising in the proximal jejunum and associated with a dorsal meningocele, dextrocardia, agenesis of ribs and hypoplasia of the left arm. Diagnosis was reached post-operatively and the infant died of cytomegalovirus pneumonitis. Results of the postmortem examination are presented. Awareness of this rare malformation is require in norder to reach a timely diagnosis and to plan a suitable operative approach. |
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| Keywords: | Thoraco-abdominal enteric duplication Meningocele Dextrocardia Chest wall deformity Cytomegalovirus |
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