Inferior gastroschisis

Gastroschisis

Closed Gastroschisis

Closed gastroschisis is a rare entity usually associated with intestinal atresia and short bowel syndrome. We report two cases of closed gastroschisis presenting with neonatal intestinal obstruction and para-umbilical evisceration without an abdominal defect.

Exomphalos and Gastroschisis

Gastroschisis and omphalocele.

The newborn who has an abdominal wall defect is one of the most dramatic presentations in medicine and offers many challenging problems to the pediatric surgeon. This article presents the basics of the two most common abdominal wall defectsdgastroschisis and omphaloceledincluding principles and options of prenatal, postnatal, and surgical management. Although textbooks group the two entities to...

Etiology of Gastroschisis

If scientific progress depends upon research experiments, experiments themselves depend upon hypotheses. In material science such as Theoretical Physics, even Nobel Prizes have been awarded for hypothetical works [1]. Unfortunately, the healing science is reeling in the rungs of ‘Evidence-Based Medicine’. Although a specialized journal ‘Medical Hypotheses’ tries to bridge this gap, medical scie...