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| Year : 2000 | Volume
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| Issue : 2 | Page : 78-80 |
Duplication Cyst causing ileal atresia : a case report and review of literature
Kamlesh K Sharma, Ashutosh Purohit
Department of Pediatric Surgery and Urology, Regional Institute of Maternal and child Health, Dr S N Medical College, Jodhpur, Rajasthan- 342003, India
Correspondence Address:
Kamlesh K Sharma
Department of Pediatric Surgery and Urology, Regional Institute of Maternal and child Health, Dr S N Medical College, Jodhpur, Rajasthan- 342003
India
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ABSTRACT: Intra-uterine mesenteric vascular catastrophe is considered to be the main etiological process in jejuno-ileal atresia. Several other rare events have also been implicated as causative factors, for example, intra-uterine volvulus, fetal intussusception, persistent vitello-intestinal duct etc., but never a duplication cyst. Here we report a case in which a spherical duplication cyst of the terminal ileum had caused atresia of a segment of ileum over it.
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