Advances in pediatric surgery
- Volume 18 Issue 1
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- Pages.35-40
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- 2012
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- 2635-8778(pISSN)
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- 2635-8786(eISSN)
Prenatally Diagnosed Gastric Duplication - Case report -
산전진단된 위중복증 - 증례 보고-
- Kang, Ki-Kwan (Pediatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, Ajou University of School of Medicine) ;
- Hong, Jeong (Pediatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, Ajou University of School of Medicine)
- Received : 2012.08.16
- Accepted : 2012.10.12
- Published : 2012.06.30
Abstract
Gastric duplication is a rare anomaly which account for only 3.8% of all gastrointestinal duplication. Gastric duplications are usually cystic lesion without communication with lumen. Most frequent presentation is an abdominal mass with vomiting, mainly diagnosed within the first year of life. Surgical removal is necessary in all cases, and optimal timing for surgery is the time that diagnosis is made. However, prenatally diagnosed gastric duplication is getting more common, and determining timing for surgery is not easy due to absent or minimal symptoms just after birth. We experienced prenatally diagnosed gastric duplication in a female newborn baby that gastric duplication was suggested in