1 Department of Surgery and Pediatrics, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
Since publication of the paper on familial congenital duodenal atresia,1 a baby boy (V 25 -see pedigree) was born in November 1970 to the parents of Case 2 reported therein.
The baby weighed 2,360 gm at birth and had a scaphoid abdomen. He became jaundiced during the first day of life (bilirubin 14.9 mg/100 ml total with 0.45 mg/100 ml direct) but did not require an exchange transfusion. He started vomiting nonbilious material from the first day of life.