We report a case of 6-month-old infant presented with abdominal distension in whom an abdominal ultrasound and hepatic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed a large hepatic mass of malignant appearance.
Subamniotic hematomais a classic placental lesion resulting from the rupture of chorionic vessels near the insertion of the cord. The development of these lesions is rarely reported in utero. We present the case of asubamniotichematomadiscoveredincidentally on obstetric ultrasound in a 28-year-old woman, primigestin her20th gestational week.
Abnormal arrangement of thoraco-abdominal anatomical structures and their vascular elements in association with dysmorphism, is called heterotaxia syndrome or situs ambiguous syndrome [3]. This syndrome is further dived into two main sets of anomaly bundles, on one hand bilateral left-sidedness or polysplenia syndrome and on the other hand bilateral right-sidedness or asplenia syndrome. It is viewed in literature as a spectrum ranging from situssolitus which is the normal distribution of organs to situsinvertustotalis, the mirror-image of the normal arrangement of organs inside the body and in between the twoentities, a wide range of malformations, as a result of a Disruption of axis determination during early embryonic: situs ambiguous .We are reporting a case of polysplenia syndrome discovered in a patient with only a mild diffuse abdominal pain.
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