In this review we describe lessons learned from the authors' series of patients born with the most complex of congenital anorectal problems, cloacal malformations, with the hope to convey the improved understanding and surgical treatment of the condition's wide spectrum of complexity learned from patients cared for over the last 25 years. This includes a series of 490 patients, 397 of whom unde...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate polyhydramnios as a sign of extreme disproportion of atretic segments in small bowel atresia (SBA). METHODS Twenty-eight patients with a prenatal diagnosis (PD) of SBA undergoing neonatal surgical treatment were reviewed retrospectively. Parameters recorded were gestational age, birth weight, surgical procedure, rate of complications, parenteral nutrition (PN) days and l...

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While much perinatal gastrointestinal pathology is concerned with confirmation of diagnoses, such as necrotizing enterocolitis, meconium ileus and intestinal atresia in surgically resected specimens, there are two clinical situations in the neonatal period in which the primary diagnosis rests with the histopathologist. The first is constipation (which usually presents as delayed passage of meco...