Hiroki Nakamura, Tadaharu Okazaki, Hiroyuki Koga, Geoffrey J Lane, Atsuyuki Yamataka
Department of Pediatric General and Urogenital Surgery, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, 113-8421, Japan.
Pediatric surgery international 2012 JanWe report a male infant with severe brachioesophagus with intrathoracic stomach, duodenum, pancreas, and spleen associated with short neck because of rachischisis and scoliosis, an extremely rare condition described recently as "serpentine-like syndrome". Our case died and we review four similar cases reported in the English literature.
Hiroki Nakamura, Tadaharu Okazaki, Hiroyuki Koga, Geoffrey J Lane, Atsuyuki Yamataka. Congenital brachioesophagus with secondary intrathoracic stomach associated with rachischisis described as "serpentine-like syndrome": a case report and literature review. Pediatric surgery international. 2012 Jan;28(1):63-6
PMID: 22009206
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