G136

EXOMPHALOS

Description
Umbilical hernia occupied by foward portion of Reidel's lobe of liver. Vessels forming umbilical can be seen on cut surface at bottom of specimen.
History
Child born 40-42 weeks' calculated gestation, weighing 2080 g.; child showed a meningomyelocoele and hydrocephalus, absent left radius, rocker-bottom feet, ventricular septal defect and a patent ductus arteriosus. For an account of development of this type of lesion see Morson and Dawson - Gastrointesinal Pathology 1974.