Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Patent vitellointestinal duct with prolapse of inverted loop of small intestine: a case report. | Journal of Medical Case Reports BioMed Central Open Access Case report Patent vitellointestinal duct with prolapse of inverted loop of small intestine a case report Prashant N Mohite 1 Ashok M Bhatnagar1 2 Virsing P Hathila1 and Jitendra H Mistry1 Address Department of Surgery SSG Hospital Medical College Vadodara Gujarat State India and 2Department of Surgery New Civil Hospital Surat Gujarat State India Email Prashant N Mohite - drprashantis@ Ashok M Bhatnagar - agrn2002@ Virsing P Hathila - vphathila@ Jitendra H Mistry - drjitendeepalimistry1981@ Corresponding author Published 14 July 2007 Received 19 February 2007 Journal ofMedical Case Reports 2007 1 49 doi 1752-1947-1-49 Accepted 14 July 2007 This article is available from http content 1 1 49 2007 Mohite et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract A wide variety of anomalies may occur as a result of the vitellointestinal duct VID failing to obliterate completely. Most reports on symptomatic VID focus on Meckel s diverticulum while other anomalies are given little attention. We report a case of a baby of five months who had an intestinal loop inverted through a patent VID. The inverted loop was reduced and ileostomy was done which was closed after 6 weeks. Background Anatomy The midgut enlarges rapidly during the first 5 weeks of gestation and becomes too large for the abdominal cavity subsequently it is herniated into the umbilical cord. The apex of the herniated midgut is continuous with the vitellointestinal duct and the yolk sac. The axis of the herniated midgut is formed by the superior mesenteric artery. At approximately the 10th week of gestation the midgut .
