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Foregut Duplication

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The exact mechanism of the development of duplication cysts is not well understood. Most foregut duplications present with one or more symptoms, but some are discovered incidentally. Preoperative imaging is paramount in planning a safe and possibly multidisciplinary surgery. The mainstay of treatment is resection. Other surgical options exist for these lesions if resection without significant morbidity is impossible. Increasingly, prenatal diagnosis of foregut duplications necessitates close follow-up and surgical intervention early in life.

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  1. Department of Surgery, Children’s Mercy Hospital, 2401 Gillham Rd, Kansas City, MO, 64108, USA

    Brian G. A. Dalton MD & Shawn D. St. Peter MD

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Correspondence to Shawn D. St. Peter MD .

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  1. Department of General Surgery, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

    Peter Mattei

  2. Division of Pediatric Surgery Department of Surgery, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

    Peter F. Nichol

  3. Primary Children’s Hospital Department of Surgery, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

    Michael D. Rollins, II

  4. Departments of Surgery and Pediatrics, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA

    Christopher S. Muratore

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Dalton, B.G.A., Peter, S.D.S. (2017). Foregut Duplication. In: Mattei, P., Nichol, P., Rollins, II, M., Muratore, C. (eds) Fundamentals of Pediatric Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27443-0_34

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