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Report of Two Cases with Surgical Recovery

ROBERT E. ROTHENBERG, M.D.; THEODORE BARNETT, M.D.

AMA Arch Surg. 1957;75(1):131-134.

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True omphalocele may best be described as a herniation of abdominal viscera through the umbilicus, in which the sac is composed only of a clear, thin membrane. O'Leary and Clymer¹ summarized several reports of collected cases and concluded that the incidence is approximately 1 in 3,500 births. Their review of the literature indicated that omphalocele is twice as common among males.

Although most authors believe that there is little tendency toward a familial incidence of this anomaly, several reports of true omphalocele among siblings have been uncovered. Paucot and Gellé² in 1936 recorded three successive stillborn fetuses of a syphilitic mother, who had large omphaloceles. McKeown, MacMahon, and Record³ found one instance of omphalocele among siblings in a study of 62 families in which this condition existed. A thorough search of the literature would indicate that the patients reported herein are the only ones in which large . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Brooklyn

From the Department of Surgery of the Central Medical Group of Brooklyn.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Nov. 8, 1956.

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