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Author Notes:

Yuri A. Zarate: yazarate@uams.edu

Academic Editor: Denis A. Cozzi

None of the authors has conflict of interests to declare.

Subjects:

Keywords:

  • adenomyoatosis
  • gallbladder
  • infant
  • ultrasonography
  • pathophysiology

Description of the first case of adenomyomatosis of the gallbladder in an infant.

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Journal Title:

Case Reports in Pediatrics

Volume:

Volume 2014

Publisher:

, Pages 248369-248369

Type of Work:

Article | Final Publisher PDF

Abstract:

We report here the case of the youngest patient with adenomyomatosis of the gallbladder in a female infant diagnosed at 4 months of age. This diagnosis was made based on characteristic ultrasonography findings in a patient that was undergoing routine surveillance for a suspected clinical diagnosis of Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome. The patient remains asymptomatic and currently no surgical interventions have been needed. We review the pathophysiology and ultrasonographic findings of this rare condition and present a comparison with the only other four pediatric cases of adenomyomatosis of the gallbladder.

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© 2014 Yuri A. Zarate et al.

This is an Open Access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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