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Onfalocele - Síntomas

Síntomas:

Un onfalocele se puede ver claramente, dado que los contenidos abdominales sobresalen o protruyen a través del área del ombligo.

Existen diferentes tamaños de onfaloceles: en los pequeños solamente protruye el intestino, mientras que en los más grandes también pueden protruir el hígado o el bazo.

Signos y exámenes:

Con las ecografías prenatales, a menudo se identifica a los bebés con onfalocele antes del nacimiento. De otro modo, un examen físico del bebé es suficiente para que el médico diagnostique esta afección y por lo general no se necesitan exámenes.

Onfalocele infantil

Reparación quirúrgica de onfalocele - Serie

Fecha de revisión: 10/8/2007
Versión en inglés revisada por:Deirdre O’Reilly, MD, MPH, Neonatologist, Division of Newborn Medicine, Children’s Hospital Boston and Instructor in Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. Review Provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network.
Traducción y localización realizada por: DrTango, Inc

Referencias

Townsend CM, Beauchamp RD, Evers BM, Mattox KL. Sabiston Textbook of Surgery, 17th ed. St. Louis, M0: WB Saunders; 2004:2116-2117.

Ledbetter DJ . Gastroschisis and omphalocele. Surg Clin North Am. April 2006; 86(2): 249-60, vii.

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