Two cases of left-sided gastroschisis: review of the literature.
In gastroschisis, the opening is almost always to the right of the umbilicus, although eight cases of left-sided gastroschisis have been reported in the literature. We encountered two additional cases of left-sided gastroschisis. One was treated successfully, but the another child died. We report the present two these two cases and a review of the literature.
Yoshioka
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Department of Pediatric Surgery, Kawasaki Medical School, 577 Matsushima, Kurashiki City, Okayama, Japan. yoshioka812@aol.com
Aoyama
K
K
Iwamura
Y
Y
Muguruma
T
T
D005260:Female; D020139:Gastroschisis / Q000196:embryology / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn