Type V Congenital Pouch Colon: An Extremely Rare Variant of Anorectal Malformations.

J Indian Assoc Pediatr Surg

Department of Pediatric Surgery, King George's Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Published: January 2017

Type V is the rarest form of congenital pouch colon with only four cases reported till date. We report this anomaly in a 6-month-old boy. He was managed successfully with excision of distal pouch and coloplasty of proximal pouch along with abdominoperineal posterior sagittal anorectoplasty. We recommend preservation of proximal pouch in such cases.

Download full-text PDF

Source
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5379871PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jiaps.JIAPS_233_16DOI Listing

Publication Analysis

Top Keywords

congenital pouch
8
pouch colon
8
proximal pouch
8
pouch
5
type congenital
4
colon extremely
4
extremely rare
4
rare variant
4
variant anorectal
4
anorectal malformations
4

Similar Publications

Want AI Summaries of new PubMed Abstracts delivered to your In-box?

Enter search terms and have AI summaries delivered each week - change queries or unsubscribe any time!