Gastrointestinal Tract Duplications in Children
Eur opean Rev iew for Med ical and Pharmacol ogical Sci ences 2014; 18: 1507-1512 Gastrointestinal tract duplications in children M.H. OKUR, M.S. ARSLAN, S. ARSLAN, B. AYDOGDU, G. TÜRKÇÜ 1, C. GOYA 2, I. UYGUN, M.K. CIGDEM, A. ÖNEN, S. OTCU Department of Pediatric Surgery, Dicle University Faculty of Medicine, Diyarbakir, Turkey 1Department of Pathology, Dicle University Faculty of Medicine, Diyarbakir, Turkey 2Department of Radiology, Dicle University Faculty of Medicine, Diyarbakir, Turkey Abstract. – AIM : Gastrointestinal tract dupli - tract (GI). They mostly occur in distal ileum and cations (GTD) are rare congenital abnormalities have an incidence rate of 4,500 1-12,500 2. GTD that can occur anywhere along the gastrointesti - may be single, multiple, or complex and may nal tract. These anomalies may present as a sin - 3 gle, multiple, or a vague pathologies. Diagnosing present challenges for diagnosis and treatment . and treating these diseases may be difficult in The pathogenesis still remains vague though er - some patients. We aimed to present 32 patients rors in embryological canalization or a part of the who were followed and treated in our clinic. notochord syndrome have been previously sug - PATIENTS AND METHODS: This study included gested 1. GTD symptoms depend on the location the patients between 2000 and 2013. Evaluations of the lesion. Common diagnostic methods in - included clinical presentations, diagnostic strate - gies and algorithms, surgical procedures and as - clude ultrasonography (USG), computed tomog - sociated anomalies, and presence of ectopic tis - raphy (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), sue, complications, and prognosis. scintigraphy, and upper GI series.
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