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Open Access 01-12-2010 | Clinical Image
Meconium pseudocyst
Published in: Pediatric Radiology | Special Issue 1/2010
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A full-term infant presented with severe abdominal distention. Supine radiograph of the chest and abdomen show a large rim-calcified mass representing a meconium pseudocyst (Fig. 1, thick arrows). The irregular linear calcifications, mostly in the left upper quadrant, are calcified meconium in the peritoneal cavity adherent to bowel walls (small arrow). Surgical and pathological findings confirmed small bowel obstruction secondary to segmental volvulus with walled-off small-bowel perforation and pseudocyst formation.
Fig. 1
Supine radiograph of the chest and abdomen
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