Anatomical study of a human case of total celosomia
Vanneuville, G.; Scheye, T.; Dechelotte, P.; Tanguy, A.; Chazal, J.; Verge-Garret, J.
Bulletin de l'Association des Anatomistes 68(202): 315-322
1984
ISSN/ISBN: 0376-6160 PMID: 6543672 Document Number: 239396
The authors studied a human specimen delivered at 36 gestational weeks and presenting with a caelosomia. The various abnormalities could be classified as: superior caelosomia: ectocardia, diaphragmatic hernia; middle caelosomia: liver outside the abdominal cavity, mesenterium commune O, meso-hepato-cave; inferior caelosomia: cloacal extrophia. In addition to the forementioned abnormalities, a lumbosacral meningocele and multicystic kidneys were found. All these abnormalities are exceptionally found all together in one human specimen and this monster might be classified in the total caelosomia group.