TY - JOUR
T1 - Congenital Intestinal Duplication in an Adult
AU - Goyal, Meha
AU - Saucedo-Crespo, Hector Ivan
AU - Welsh, Francis Joseph
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014, The Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract.
PY - 2014/10/1
Y1 - 2014/10/1
N2 - Congenital intestinal duplication is an anomaly most commonly diagnosed in children under the age of 2. Rarely, it is seen in adults who remain asymptomatic or present with vague abdominal symptoms. Here, we describe the case of a 33-year-old female who was diagnosed intraoperatively with congenital intestinal duplication after suffering from a year of vague abdominal complaints.
AB - Congenital intestinal duplication is an anomaly most commonly diagnosed in children under the age of 2. Rarely, it is seen in adults who remain asymptomatic or present with vague abdominal symptoms. Here, we describe the case of a 33-year-old female who was diagnosed intraoperatively with congenital intestinal duplication after suffering from a year of vague abdominal complaints.
KW - Congenital
KW - Intestinal duplication
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U2 - 10.1007/s11605-014-2551-z
DO - 10.1007/s11605-014-2551-z
M3 - Article
C2 - 24889789
AN - SCOPUS:84907860890
SN - 1091-255X
VL - 18
SP - 1876
EP - 1877
JO - Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery
JF - Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery
IS - 10
ER -