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Tantchou Tchoumi Jacques Cabral, Alessandro Giamberti, Gianfranco Butera, Alessandro Frigiola, Ambassa Jean Claude. Extrathoracic heart in northern Cameroon: a case report. The Pan African Medical Journal. 2009;2:8 Key words: ectopia cordis Permanent link: http://www.panafrican-med-journal.com/content/article/2/8/full Received: 08/04/2009 - Accepted: 01/06/2009 - Published: 10/06/2009 © Tantchou Tchoumi Jacques Cabral et al. The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Extrathoracic heart in northern Cameroon: a case report
Tantchou Tchoumi Jacques Cabral 1&, Alessandro Giamberti 1, Gianfranco Butera1, Alessandro Frigiola1, Ambassa Jean Claude2
1Istituto policlinico San Donato Via Morandi 30, 29007 San Donato Milanese, 2Cardiac unit, Shisong St. Elizabeth catholic general hospital P.O Box 8 kumbo.
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Tantchou Tchoumi Jacques Cabral, Istituto policlinico San Donato Via Morandi 30, 29007 San Donato Milanese.
Abstract
Sternal clefts, ectopia cordis, and Cantrell's pentalogy continue to be very rare congenital anomalies in pediatric surgery. The prenatal diagnosis is easily made with ultrasound by visualizing the heart outside the thoracic cavity. Ectopia cordis is frequently associated with other congenital defects involving multiple organ systems. We report a case of ectopia cordis with successful surgical correction on a 7 months old child from northern Cameroon.
