{"id":160,"date":"2026-06-25T09:51:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T09:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/my-path\/?p=160"},"modified":"2026-06-25T11:52:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T11:52:29","slug":"gi-paedatric-pathology-cases-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/my-path\/2026\/06\/25\/gi-paedatric-pathology-cases-3\/","title":{"rendered":"GI: Paedatric Pathology Cases 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">A full-term baby was delivered with uncovered loops of bowel protruding from the abdomen to the<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">right of the umbilicus.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-162\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/my-path\/files\/2026\/06\/Gastroschisis-web-300x179.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gastroschisis<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The diagnosis is <strong>gastroschisis.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">This needs to be distinguished from an <strong>omphalocoele<\/strong>, which is another type of abdominal wall defect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">An omphalocole is a midline herniation of the intestines (and, sometimes, other organs)\u00a0 through the umbilical ring.<\/p>\n<p>A critical point is that in an omphalocele, the contents are covered by the peritoneum and amniotic membrane.<\/p>\n<p>These features and additional information are summarised in the following table<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"163\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-165\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/my-path\/files\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-25-at-12.45.58-300x163.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A full-term baby was delivered with uncovered loops of bowel protruding from the abdomen to the right of the umbilicus. &nbsp; https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gastroschisis The diagnosis is gastroschisis. &nbsp; This needs to be distinguished from an omphalocoele, which is another type of abdominal wall defect. An omphalocole is a midline herniation of the intestines (and, sometimes, other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[290084,318393,318392,290088],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gastro-intestinal-pathology","category-paediatric","category-trainee","category-undergraduate-pathology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/my-path\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/my-path\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/my-path\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/my-path\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/my-path\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/my-path\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/my-path\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions\/171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/my-path\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/my-path\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/my-path\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}