Image of the Month: Meconium Peritonitis with Pseudocyst-A Spot Diagnosis in Newborns

• Main Authors: Rudolph Ascherl (Author), Duarte Vaz Pimentel (Author), Mathias Knüpfer (Author), Ina Sorge (Author), Martin Lacher (Author), Peter Zimmermann (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Georg Thieme Verlag KG, 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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We report on a male preterm newborn with a large abdominal tumor found on prenatal ultrasound 2 weeks prior to delivery at 36 + 0 weeks of gestation. A postnatal abdominal plain film showed a mass with well-defined rim calcifications ("eggshell"), suggestive of a meconium pseudocyst. On th...