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CASE REPORT
Year : 2017  |  Volume : 7  |  Issue : 2  |  Page : 62-64

Giant omphalocele in a toddler: Patronage for single-layer primary closure


1 Department of Pediatric Surgery, AIIMS, Patna, Bihar, India
2 Department of Radiology, AIIMS, Patna, Bihar, India

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Dr. Amit K Sinha
Department of Pediatric Surgery, AIIMS, Patna, Bihar
India
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Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None


DOI: 10.4103/ais.ais_25_17

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Omphalocele represent the commonest abdominal wall defects. Giant omphalocele is one of its subtypes, containing liver in its entirety. Due to various syndromic and non-syndromic associations and gross viscero-abdominal disproportion, post-operative outcome poses a challenge. There have been a lot of disparities among surgeons deciding the operative technique. We pluck the courage to report a yet another method of successful single layer primary closure of a giant omphalocele in our institute, well equipped with intensive care facilities.


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