[Intestinal hemorrhage in a milk-fed infant: a case of laryngo-tracheo-gastric duplication].
An important gut hemorrhage in a breast fed child is not a usual event. If, in addition, the etiology represents a real rarity, even the most sophisticated diagnostic trials can't give any aid and this constitutes a hard diagnostic and therapeutic problem. In this report, the authors describe how, after a long sequence of analysis and exams, no certain diagnosis was possible, till serious anaemia gave indication to an explorative laparatomy. Laparatomy became both diagnostic and therapeutic and allowed to discover a rare malformation: a tracheal-gastric duplication.
Fomia
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Clinica Pediatrica, Ospedale S. Gerardo di Monza, Italia.
Cappellini
A
A
Casiraghi
M G
MG
Codecasa
G
G
Conte
G F
GF
Masera
G
G
Ronconi
C
C
Sordo
S
S
D000015:Abnormalities, Multiple / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D001942:Breast Feeding; D004065:Digestive System Abnormalities; D006471:Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007830:Larynx / Q000002:abnormalities; D008297:Male; D014132:Trachea / Q000002:abnormalities
Emorragia intestinale in un lattante: un caso di duplicazione laringo-tracheo-gastrica.