Rare Association of Extended Total Colonic Aganglionosis and Intestinal Malrotation

Total colonic aganglionosis occurring together with malrotation is a rare occurrence and may pose diagnostic and management dilemmas for the paediatric surgeon. We report a case of a neonate that presented with extended total colonic aganglionosis and malrotation, along with a spectrum of central ne...

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Autores principales: Stratulat-Chiriac, Iulia, Mc Laughlin, Danielle, Antao, Brice
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/PMC5117284/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27896169
http://dx.doi.org/10.21699/jns.v5i4.468
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author Stratulat-Chiriac, Iulia
Mc Laughlin, Danielle
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description Total colonic aganglionosis occurring together with malrotation is a rare occurrence and may pose diagnostic and management dilemmas for the paediatric surgeon. We report a case of a neonate that presented with extended total colonic aganglionosis and malrotation, along with a spectrum of central nervous system and renal abnormalities. The clinical and radiological features and potential diagnostic and management pitfalls are discussed along with a literature review of this exceptionally infrequent association.
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spelling pubmed-51172842016-11-28 Rare Association of Extended Total Colonic Aganglionosis and Intestinal Malrotation Stratulat-Chiriac, Iulia Mc Laughlin, Danielle Antao, Brice J Neonatal Surg Case Report Total colonic aganglionosis occurring together with malrotation is a rare occurrence and may pose diagnostic and management dilemmas for the paediatric surgeon. We report a case of a neonate that presented with extended total colonic aganglionosis and malrotation, along with a spectrum of central nervous system and renal abnormalities. The clinical and radiological features and potential diagnostic and management pitfalls are discussed along with a literature review of this exceptionally infrequent association. EL-MED-Pub 2016-10-10 /pmc/articles/PMC5117284/ /pubmed/27896169 http://dx.doi.org/10.21699/jns.v5i4.468 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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Rare Association of Extended Total Colonic Aganglionosis and Intestinal Malrotation
title Rare Association of Extended Total Colonic Aganglionosis and Intestinal Malrotation
title_full Rare Association of Extended Total Colonic Aganglionosis and Intestinal Malrotation
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title_short Rare Association of Extended Total Colonic Aganglionosis and Intestinal Malrotation
title_sort rare association of extended total colonic aganglionosis and intestinal malrotation
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5117284/
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