1 The Department of Pediatric, Yale University School of Medicine and Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut
2 The Department of Radiology, Yale University School of Medicine and Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut
An unusual congenital vascular abnormality is described which caused chronic superior mesenteric artery insufficiency and eventual fatal small bowel infarction in an 18-week-old infant. During life the patient had post-prandial distress, intractible diarrhea, persistent melena, malabsorption, and a probable protein-losing enteropathy.
Submitted on July 28, 1966