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Neonatal perforation of a Y-shaped sigmoid duplication
J Correia-Pinto1, R Romero, J L Carvalho
1Divisions of Pediatric Surgery and Neonatology, Faculty of Medicine and São João Hospital, Porto, Portugal.
Journal of Pediatric Surgery
|August 31, 2001
Abstract:
Tubular colonic duplications are exceedingly rare; the "Y"-shaped forms are exceptional. In the absence of associated low vertebral or urogenital malformations (often fistulas), the tubular colonic malformations frequently stay hidden for several years until a complication develops. The authors report a case of a spontaneous perforation of a Y-shaped tubular colonic duplication during the neonatal period.