Intestinal malrotation and omental cyst presenting as fetal ascites

Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 283-286

  DeRusso, Patricia A ^a,b   Benson, Jane ^a   Lau, Henry ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS CHILDREN S CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ARTICLE; ASCITES; ASCITES FLUID ANALYSIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYST; ECHOGRAPHY; FETAL ASCITES; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL RADIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; INTESTINE MALROTATION; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER BIOPSY; LYMPHANGIOMA; MALE; OMENTAL CYST; OMENTUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CYSTIC LYMPHANGIOMA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; INTESTINE; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; NEWBORN; PERITONEAL DISEASE; PERITONEUM TUMOR;

ASCITES; CYSTS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINES; LYMPHANGIOMA, CYSTIC; MALE; OMENTUM; PERITONEAL DISEASES; PERITONEAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0037867702     PISSN: 02772116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005176-200302000-00023     Document Type: Article

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