Long Upper Pouch in Esophageal Atresia: A Rare Variant

The earliest clinical sign of esophageal atresia (EA) is excessive salivation and the diagnosis is made by failure to pass an infant feeding tube (IFT) into the stomach. The diagnostic errors may occur due to presence of an unusually long upper pouch, when the IFT seems to pass into the stomach. We...

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Autores principales: Yhoshu, Enono, Mahajan, Jai Kumar, Dash, Vedarth
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: EL-MED-Pub 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4714618/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26793598
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description The earliest clinical sign of esophageal atresia (EA) is excessive salivation and the diagnosis is made by failure to pass an infant feeding tube (IFT) into the stomach. The diagnostic errors may occur due to presence of an unusually long upper pouch, when the IFT seems to pass into the stomach. We describe one such case and review the relevant literature.
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spelling pubmed-47146182016-01-20 Long Upper Pouch in Esophageal Atresia: A Rare Variant Yhoshu, Enono Mahajan, Jai Kumar Dash, Vedarth J Neonatal Surg Case Report The earliest clinical sign of esophageal atresia (EA) is excessive salivation and the diagnosis is made by failure to pass an infant feeding tube (IFT) into the stomach. The diagnostic errors may occur due to presence of an unusually long upper pouch, when the IFT seems to pass into the stomach. We describe one such case and review the relevant literature. EL-MED-Pub 2016-01-01 /pmc/articles/PMC4714618/ /pubmed/26793598 Text en Copyright: © 2016 JNS 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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Long Upper Pouch in Esophageal Atresia: A Rare Variant
title Long Upper Pouch in Esophageal Atresia: A Rare Variant
title_full Long Upper Pouch in Esophageal Atresia: A Rare Variant
title_fullStr Long Upper Pouch in Esophageal Atresia: A Rare Variant
title_full_unstemmed Long Upper Pouch in Esophageal Atresia: A Rare Variant
title_short Long Upper Pouch in Esophageal Atresia: A Rare Variant
title_sort long upper pouch in esophageal atresia: a rare variant
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4714618/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26793598
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