Janienne Kondrich, Theodore Woo, Howard B Ginsburg, Deborah A Levine
Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, New York University Langone Medical Center, New York, NY 10016, USA.
Pediatrics 2012 DecThe omphalomesenteric duct (OMD), a temporary structure essential to fetal development, normally involutes completely by week 8 or 9 of gestation. On occasion, the OMD persists, the clinical presentations of which vary widely. We describe a case of a 6-week-old male with a patent OMD remnant that was initially treated as an umbilical granuloma, which then potentially allowed for prolapse of the small bowel through the umbilical ring. The patient required resection of the incarcerated bowel but had an otherwise uneventful and complete recovery.
Janienne Kondrich, Theodore Woo, Howard B Ginsburg, Deborah A Levine. Evisceration of small bowel after cauterization of an umbilical mass. Pediatrics. 2012 Dec;130(6):e1708-10
PMID: 23166332
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