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Report of a Case

WILLIAM B. KIESEWETTER, M.D.

AMA Arch Surg. 1957;75(1):28-30.

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As one surveys the literature on the subject of gastroschisis, one is impressed by the confusion of thought which is occasioned by this term. There are those who use it to embrace all forms of anterior abdominal-wall maldevelopment and herniation.¹ There are others who use it to describe what Gross and Blodgett² have termed omphalocele. It has more recently been used by Moore and Stokes³ to delineate a hernial abnormality of the anterior abdominal wall that occurs in the extraumbilical position. This use of the term is part of their classification of anterior abdominal wall abnormalities into three groups: (1) omphalocele, an umbilical cord abnormality; (2) intussusception through the omphalomesenteric duct, an omphalomesenteric duct abnormality; (3) gastroschisis, an extraumbilical abdominal wall abnormality. Gastroschisis is a Greek word meaning "belly cleft" and could, therefore, apply to any one of these abnormalities of embryonic development that lead to eventration . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Pittsburgh

Associate Professor of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine; Surgeon-in-Chief, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh.; From the Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Surgical Clinic of the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Feb. 4, 1957.

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