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Ectopic Liver in Omphalocele
Author(s) -
FOCK GUSTAF
Publication year - 1963
Publication title -
acta pædiatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1963.tb03781.x
Subject(s) - omphalocele , medicine , lobe , anatomy , left lobe , stage (stratigraphy) , fetus , pathology , pregnancy , biology , paleontology , genetics
SUMMARY Two newborn infants are described, both of whom had a slight omphalocelic anomaly. In both an ectopic lobe was completely detached from the liver itself and located outside the abdominal cavity. In the first case the hepatic lobe had apparently become detached at an early embryonal stage, since the histological picture of the liver was extremely primitive. In the second case the hepatic lobe was perhaps detached in a late intrauterine stage, as its histological picture was characteristic of the mature liver.