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Case Report

J Korean Pediatr Soc. 1973;16(12):965-969. Published online December 31, 1973.

Congenital Atresia of Intestine

Eu Kyung Kim¹, Hyun Soo Oh¹, Ji Sub Oh¹, Dong Hak Shin¹

¹Department of Pediatrics, Taegu Presbyterian Hospital

Abstract

The most common cause of neonatal intestinal obstruction is congenital atresia of intestine of which cause has not been clear. There may be two major hypothesis of pathogenic mechanism, hypoplasia theory and atrophy theory. Two cases of congenital atresia of intestine are presented with literature review confirmed operatively at Taegu Presbyterian [Hospital, one is duodenal atresia with cardiac anormaly and another is upper jejunal and descending colon atres i.

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