Author/Authors :
Tripathy, Prasanta Kumar Department of Pediatric Surgery - SVP Postgraduate Institute of Pediatrics, Cuttack, Odisha, India , Ray, Banoj Kumar Department of Pediatric Surgery - SVP Postgraduate Institute of Pediatrics, Cuttack, Odisha, India , Mohanty, Hiranya Kishore Department of Pediatric Surgery - SVP Postgraduate Institute of Pediatrics, Cuttack, Odisha, India
Abstract :
We report an extremely rare finding 'congenital absence of jejunum and ileum' during explorative laparotomy of a 16-day-old female neonate. The dilated duodenum was terminating blindly, and the next segment of intestine was a peanut-sized cecum followed by microcolon. On an extensive survey of literature this type of intestinal atresia is not reported in living babies.
