%0 Journal Article
%T Congenital Absence of Jejunum and Ileum: A Case Report and Literature Review
%A Banoj Kumar Ray
%A Hiranya Kishore Mohanty
%A Prasanta Kumar Tripathy
%J Archive of "African Journal of Paediatric Surgery: AJPS".
%D 2017
%R 10.4103/ajps.AJPS_63_16
%X We report an extremely rare finding ¡®congenital absence of jejunum and ileum¡¯ during explorative laparotomy of a 16-day-old female neonate. The dilated duodenum was terminating blindly, and the next segment of intestine was a peanut-sized cecum followed by microcolon. On an extensive survey of literature this type of intestinal atresia is not reported in living babies
%K Absence of jejunum and ileum
%K duodenocolic anastomosis
%K intestinal atresia
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5881287/