Congenital Absence of Jejunum and Ileum: A Case Report and Literature Review

We report an extremely rare finding ‘congenital absence of jejunum and ileum’ during explorative laparotomy of a 16-day-old female neonate. The dilated duodenum was terminating blindly, and the next segment of intestine was a peanut-sized cecum followed by microcolon. On an extensive survey of liter...

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Autores principales: Tripathy, Prasanta Kumar, Ray, Banoj Kumar, Mohanty, Hiranya Kishore
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5881287/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29557352
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ajps.AJPS_63_16
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Sumario:We report an extremely rare finding ‘congenital absence of jejunum and ileum’ during explorative laparotomy of a 16-day-old female neonate. The dilated duodenum was terminating blindly, and the next segment of intestine was a peanut-sized cecum followed by microcolon. On an extensive survey of literature this type of intestinal atresia is not reported in living babies.

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