Secondary pulmonary hypoplasia associated with calcified Meckel´s diverticulum with osseous metaplasia

Czech version

Authors: Silvia Farkašová Iannaccone ¹; Peter Švajdler ²; Marián Švajdler ³; Dorota Sopková ¹; Ažbeta Ginelliová ⁴; Jana Šprláková ⁵; Miroslava Petrášová ⁵; Lucia Fröhlichová ⁶; Daniel Farkaš ⁴
Authors‘ workplace: Ústav súdneho lekárstva UPJŠ LF, Trieda SNP č. 1, Košice ¹; Cytopathos s. r. o., Bratislava ²; Šiklův ústav patologie, Univerzita Karlova Praha, Lékařská fakulta Plzeň, Bioptická laboratoř s. r. o., Plzeň ³; Úrad pre dohľad nad zdravotnou starostlivosťou, SLaPA pracovisko, Ipeľská 1, Košice ⁴; Detská fakultná nemocnica, Trieda SNP č. 1, Košice ⁵; Oddelenie patológie, Univerzitná nemocnica Louisa Pasteura, Košice ⁶
Published in: Čes.-slov. Patol., 57, 2021, No. 1, p. 44-48
Category: Original Article

Overview

In this paper, we report autopsy findings of a 1-day old full-term mature female neonate with pulmonary hypoplasia diagnosed postnatally. Death was attributed to acute respiratory failure due to hyaline membrane disease. We describe pathological features of calcified Meckel’s diverticulum with osseous metaplasia and inflammatory changes in adjacent peritoneum. As far as we know, this case report documents the youngest patient ever diagnosed with calcified Meckel’s diverticulum with osseous metaplasia.

Keywords:

pulmonary hypoplasia – calcified Meckel’s diverticulum – Meckel’s diverticulum with osseous metaplasia

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