A historical vignette: gastroschisis.
In the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons of England in London, there are a series of fetal specimens of varying gestational ages collected by John Hunter (1728-1793). Among this collection is a fetus demonstrating a gastroschisis anomaly that had gone unrecognized for almost 200 years.
Spitz
Lewis
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Pediatric Surgery, Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Hospital, London. l.spitz@ich.ucl.ac.uk
D004739:England; D020139:Gastroschisis / Q000266:history*; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn