RT Book, Section
A1 Winthrop, Andrea
A1 Whitehouse, Jill
A2 Rudolph, Colin D.
A2 Rudolph, Abraham M.
A2 Lister, George E.
A2 First, Lewis R.
A2 Gershon, Anne A.
SR Print(0)
ID 7036675
T1 Chapter 400. Microgastria and Gastric Perforation
T2 Rudolph's Pediatrics, 22e
YR 2011
FD 2011
PB The McGraw-Hill Companies
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-149723-7
LK accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=7036675
RD 2024/04/24
AB Congenital  microgastria  is  a  rare  anomaly  that  is  characterized  by  failure  of  the  primitive  foregut  to  differentiate  into  a  stomach  during  weeks  4  to  8  of  gestation,  thus  resulting  in  a  small  tubular  stomach  usually  associated  with  megaesophagus  and  incomplete  gastric  rotation  (Fig.  400-1).  Isolated  microgastria  is  uncommon,1  with  associated  anomalies  such  as  asplenia,  situs  inversus,  limb  hypoplasia,  intestinal  malrotation,  laryngotracheal  clefts,  and  cardiac  abnormalities  being  common.2,3  Only  about  60  cases  have  been  described.