We present a male infant with a giant omphalocele, diaphragmatic hernia, hepatic cyst, bilateral radioulnarsynostosis, absent leftthumb, and triphalangeal right thumb. History Prenatal. Polyhydramnios. Giant omphalocele shown by ultrasonography. Division of Clinical Genetics, Department of Paediatrics A, Rambam Medical Centre, PO Box 9602, 31096 Haifa, Israel. R Gershoni-Baruch Department of Ne...

Omphalocele is a congenital malformation characterized by the failure of the abdominal walls to join together on the middle line as a consequence of a developmental defect. The diameter of the resulting opening may range from a few centimetres to the almost total absence of the abdominal wall. The diameter of the defect usually ranges from 3 to 8 cm. Naturally, the wider the opening, the more c...

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Omphalocele is a known congenital anomaly consisting with a periumbilical abdominal wall defect determining the herniation of viscera into a sac made up of peritoneum, Wharton’s jelly and amnios. When the defect is larger than 5-6 cm with herniation of most of the liver and bowel into the sac, the condition is commonly referred to as giant omphalocele (GO). The latter represents a challenging s...