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Unusual congenital abdominal wall defect and review
Author(s) -
Carrera Ignacio Arroyo,
Pitarch Vicente,
García María Jesús,
Barrio Ana Raquel,
MartínezFrías María Luisa
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
american journal of medical genetics part a
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.064
H-Index - 112
eISSN - 1552-4833
pISSN - 1552-4825
DOI - 10.1002/ajmg.a.20112
Subject(s) - anatomy , umbilicus (mollusc) , abdominal wall , agenesis , medicine , etiology , pathology
Abdominal wall defects distant from the umbilicus are very unusual. We describe a patient with a congenital defect adjacent and external to the lateral border of the recti muscles, rounded in shape, bilateral and symmetrical, but affecting different structures in each side, musculocutaneous agenesis in the left side and only muscle agenesis in the right one. The morphologic characteristics of the defect and the absence of associated anomalies, suggest that this anomaly may be the result of an event acting during phenogenesis. We consider that this defect is different from other structural abnormalities of the anterior abdominal wall which occur much earlier at certain periods of the embryogenesis. Though the etiology is speculative, we could postulate a disruptive origin of the defect of unknown cause. © 2003 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.