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Laparoscopic Ladd procedure in infants: Report of three cases from a developing country

Infants with intestinal malrotation present with bilious emesis and the diagnosis is generally obtained by an upper gastrointestinal barium study. Malrotation is suspected if the ligament of Treitz is not positioned to the left of the vertebral body. Three patients were admitted to our department fr...

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Autor principal: Youssef, Mohammed A.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2699077/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19547690
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description Infants with intestinal malrotation present with bilious emesis and the diagnosis is generally obtained by an upper gastrointestinal barium study. Malrotation is suspected if the ligament of Treitz is not positioned to the left of the vertebral body. Three patients were admitted to our department from March 2006 to May 2007, aged three weeks, one month and eight months, weighing 3,3.200 and 8 kg respectively to whom laparoscopic Ladd's procedure was done successfully.
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spelling pubmed-26990772009-06-22 Laparoscopic Ladd procedure in infants: Report of three cases from a developing country Youssef, Mohammed A. J Minim Access Surg Unusual Case Infants with intestinal malrotation present with bilious emesis and the diagnosis is generally obtained by an upper gastrointestinal barium study. Malrotation is suspected if the ligament of Treitz is not positioned to the left of the vertebral body. Three patients were admitted to our department from March 2006 to May 2007, aged three weeks, one month and eight months, weighing 3,3.200 and 8 kg respectively to whom laparoscopic Ladd's procedure was done successfully. Medknow Publications 2008 /pmc/articles/PMC2699077/ /pubmed/19547690 Text en © Journal of Minimal Access Surgery http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Unusual Case
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Laparoscopic Ladd procedure in infants: Report of three cases from a developing country
title Laparoscopic Ladd procedure in infants: Report of three cases from a developing country
title_full Laparoscopic Ladd procedure in infants: Report of three cases from a developing country
title_fullStr Laparoscopic Ladd procedure in infants: Report of three cases from a developing country
title_full_unstemmed Laparoscopic Ladd procedure in infants: Report of three cases from a developing country
title_short Laparoscopic Ladd procedure in infants: Report of three cases from a developing country
title_sort laparoscopic ladd procedure in infants: report of three cases from a developing country
topic Unusual Case
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2699077/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19547690
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