DOI: 10.36347/sasjm.2021.v07i11.002

Pages: 598-600

Gastrointestinal duplications are rare congenital malformations that can involve all digestive segments, from the mouth to the anus. These duplications can be cystic or tubular, communicating or not with the adjacent digestive tract segment. The diagnosis is increasingly suspected antenatally. In other cases, the clinical symptoms are often aspecific, depending on the anatomical region concerned and the possible occurrence of revealing complications. Imaging, and in particular ultrasound, allows the diagnosis to be evoked and to look for associated anomalies, which condition the prognosis and management. The diagnosis of certainty is most often confirmed only after excision and anatomical anatomopathological examination. Surgery is required and must be complete at best, to avoid any risk of complication or risk of complication or malignant degeneration. We report the observation of an infant who presented with a late-onset cystic ileal duplication complicated by an occlusive syndrome.