Polybezoar in a child with Down's syndrome after corrective surgery of congenital duodenal stenosis

Arlart, I.

Der Radiologe 20(11): 549-551

1980


ISSN/ISBN: 0033-832X
PMID: 6451896
Document Number: 159530
Case-report of a mongoloid child (Trisomy 21), age 9, operated on in his neonatal period for congenital stenosis of the duodenum; now presenting with acute clinical signs of gastric outlet obstruction and increasing weight loss. Radiologic work-up showed this to be due to a large gastric and duodenal polybezoar, claimed to be due to emotional disturbance as part of this patients primary disease.

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