Atresia of the Ascending Colon: A Rarity

Atresia of the colon is among the rare types of all gastrointestinal atresias. Ascending colon is the rarest site of all the colonic atresias. The authors report a case of a 4-day-old male baby who presented with the features of distal intestinal obstruction. At laparotomy type I atresia of the asce...

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Autores principales: Mansoor, Haroon, Kanwal, Naila, Shaukat, Mahmood
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: EL-MED-Pub 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3417987/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22953246
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author Mansoor, Haroon
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description Atresia of the colon is among the rare types of all gastrointestinal atresias. Ascending colon is the rarest site of all the colonic atresias. The authors report a case of a 4-day-old male baby who presented with the features of distal intestinal obstruction. At laparotomy type I atresia of the ascending colon, just distal to cecum, was found. Primary ceco-colic anastomosis along with a covering ileostomy was performed. Ileostomy was reversed 3 weeks later.
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spelling pubmed-34179872012-09-05 Atresia of the Ascending Colon: A Rarity Mansoor, Haroon Kanwal, Naila Shaukat, Mahmood APSP J Case Rep Case Report Atresia of the colon is among the rare types of all gastrointestinal atresias. Ascending colon is the rarest site of all the colonic atresias. The authors report a case of a 4-day-old male baby who presented with the features of distal intestinal obstruction. At laparotomy type I atresia of the ascending colon, just distal to cecum, was found. Primary ceco-colic anastomosis along with a covering ileostomy was performed. Ileostomy was reversed 3 weeks later. EL-MED-Pub 2010-08-14 /pmc/articles/PMC3417987/ /pubmed/22953246 Text en Copyright © 2010 Mansoor et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 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.
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