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Original Article
Two Cases of Congenital Asplenia.
Man Chul Ha, Young Tak Lim, Hi Joo Chun, Hi Ju Park, Chan Yung Kim
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1987;30(8):916-921.   Published online August 31, 1987
Congenital absence of spleen is often associated with malpositions and malformations of other organ system such as congenital heart disease partial situs inversus, symmetric lobulation of the liver and the lungs. This is a rare syndrome but has been reported in increasing frequency in recent years. The pure congenital asplenia is a very rare disease. We experienced two cases of congenital asplenia. One is...
Case Report
A Case of Congenital Asplenia Associated with Congenital Cardiac Malformation and Partial Situs Inversus.
Jung Sim Choi, Yoon Ho Kang, Sook Young Lee, Jin Sook Lee, Kawng Ho Kim, Soo Nam Lee
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1984;27(11):1113-1117.   Published online November 30, 1984
The postmortem finding in a 64 day-old Korean male of asplenia associated with congenital malformation of heart and partial situs inversus of the abdominal viscera has been presented. And results were as follows. 1. Heart 1) abscence of atrial septum with, triangular muscular band. 2) common atrioventricular orfice with, anomalous attachment. 3) univentricle. 2. Respiratory tract 1) bilateral trilobed lung. 2) chronic passive congestion of lung, bilateral. 3. Gastrointestinal tract 1) Right sided stomach, duodenum and pancreas. 2) Enlarsgment of left lobe...