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Congenital Malformations of the Gastrointestinal Tract: Embryology, Presentation and Surgical Management

Paediatric surgery notes on the gut malformations from the mouth to the anus, split into the upper and lower groups and traced back to the foregut, midgut and hindgut and the failed migration, fusion, recanalisation and differentiation behind each. Regurgitation and drooling in the neonate with oesophageal atresia and fistula, hypertrophic pyloric stenosis, duodenal atresia, malrotation with volvulus, Hirschsprung disease, anorectal anomalies and Meckel's diverticulum are given with their clinical features, investigations and the surgical or medical treatment, and the complications of each. Martin Mbogho, BSc HND(Paeds), lecturer in Clinical Medicine.

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