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Case Reports
. 2012 Apr;17(2):68-70.
doi: 10.4103/0971-9261.93966.

Completely isolated enteric duplication cyst associated with a classic enterogenous duplication cyst

Nitin Pant  1 , Jitendra K Grover, Neha K Madan, Rajiv Chadha, Kiran Agarwal, Subhasis R Choudhury
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Completely isolated enteric duplication cyst associated with a classic enterogenous duplication cyst

Nitin Pant et al. J Indian Assoc Pediatr Surg. 2012 Apr.

Abstract

This report describes an 18-month-old boy with a completely isolated duplication cyst (CIDC) of the ileum associated with another classic enteric duplication cyst in the adjacent bowel and presenting as an acute abdomen due to torsion of the pedicle of the CIDC. Cysts excision was curative.

Keywords: Completely isolated duplication cyst; duplication cyst; enteric duplications; enterogenous cyst; notochord.

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Conflict of Interest: None declared.

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