Case Report: A Child With Functional Chronic Duodenal Obstruction Caused by Megaduodenum

Megaduodenum is a clinical syndrome which is characterized by the remarkable expansion of duodenum. Megaduodenum can be caused by mechanical or functional chronic duodenal obstruction. Functional chronic duodenal obstruction of megaduodenum in children is a clinical syndrome characterized by non-mec...

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Autores principales: Qu, Zhibo, Zheng, Biao, Ju, Chuncheng, Liu, Jiaxu, Liu, Bingyang, Zhang, Haoran
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
Materias:
Pediatrics
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7813810/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33469521
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fped.2020.585699
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Sumario:Megaduodenum is a clinical syndrome which is characterized by the remarkable expansion of duodenum. Megaduodenum can be caused by mechanical or functional chronic duodenal obstruction. Functional chronic duodenal obstruction of megaduodenum in children is a clinical syndrome characterized by non-mechanical obstruction of the duodenum and marked expansion. It is an extremely rare congenital disease. Our paper report a 1-year-old girl with functional chronic duodenal obstruction caused by megaduodenum.

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