PEDIATRICS Vol. 39 No. 3 March 1967, pp. 344-347
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CONGENITAL HEPATIC ARTERY ANEURYSM WITH SUPERIOR MESENTERIC ARTERY INSUFFICIENCY: A STEAL SYNDROME

Joyce D. Gryboski M.D.1 and Arthur Clemett M.D.2

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
Accepted on September 26, 1966