Ascending colonic atresia : the rarest cause of neonatal congenital intestinal obstruction

Publication Date

2015

Document Type

Research

Abstract

The author presents a case of a 4-day old female coming in with signs and symptoms of gut obstruction-progressive abdominal distension, bilious vomiting, and failure to pass meconium for more than 38 hours of life. A laparotomy was performed revealing a Type IIIA colonic atresia, with a markedly dilated cecum and proximal ascending colon and an atretic distal segment. A tapering end colostomy was then performed and the patient was discharged improved after 10 days.

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