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Case Report

J Korean Pediatr Soc. 1983;26(3):275-278. Published online March 31, 1983.

A Case Report of Ectopic Cords.

Sang Cheol Lee¹, Jae Gae Rue¹, Byung Do Nam¹, Jung Hee Lee¹

¹Department of Pediatrics, St. Benedit Hospital, Busan, Korea

Abstract

A case of thoracic ectopia cordis in a female newborn baby was presented. The patient manifested a pulsating mass protruding out of the midline of the thorax, split sternum, skin defect of a abdominal wall, and left ventricular diverticulum, and she had several extracardiac anomalies such as hepatomegely, absence of gall bladder and common bile duct, and blind ending of both hepatic ducts. The authors report the case with the review of the pertinent literature and finding of autopsy.

Keywords :Ectopia cordis; Thoracic type; Left ventricular diverticulum.