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What's that abdominal mass?
- Source :
- Archives of disease in childhood. Education and practice edition. 103(4)
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- A woman was admitted for planned induction at 39+5 weeks gestation. This was her third pregnancy. She had two previous children who were fit and well. Antenatal scans showed a fetal intra-abdominal mass measuring 6.2×5.5×7 cm in the lower abdomen, which was compressing the bladder. The mass was thought to be originating from the ovary or the bowel. On postnatal examination, the baby girl had a distended and full abdomen. There was a right-sided abdominal mass palpable above the umbilicus and 3 cm in size. It was firm, smooth and mobile in consistency. She had a normal anus and external female genitalia, with evidence of a prolapsed vagina on crying. She had passed urine and opened her bowels. The baby was kept nil by mouth and on intravenous fluids until the abdominal radiography was performed. The image is shown in figure 1. Figure 1 Neonatal abdominal radiograph. Describe the findings noted on the abdominal radiograph? She was …
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Umbilicus (mollusc)
030232 urology & nephrology
Ultrasonography, Prenatal
Diagnosis, Differential
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Pregnancy
Medicine
Humans
Neonatology
business.industry
Crying
Infant, Newborn
Hydrocolpos
Anus
Abdominal mass
Surgery
medicine.anatomical_structure
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
Vagina
Gestation
Abdomen
Female
medicine.symptom
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 17430593
- Volume :
- 103
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Archives of disease in childhood. Education and practice edition
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....a2ba78dc9b703c230c66f62a25ae9d54