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Surgery of the Abdominal Wall pp 243–276Cite as

The Abdominal Wall in Infants and Children

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Defective closure of the embryonic abdominal wall can occur at three different levels — epigastric, umbilical, or hypogastric — thereby leading to celosomia (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1832–1837) in the superior, middle, or inferior position (Wolff 1936, 1938; Morin and Neidhardt 1977).

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