& d a g g e r ; Pediatrician, Leicester Royal Infirmary, Leicester, England.Four infants are described aged 12 days to five months in whom failure to thrive and persistent diarrhea were caused by subacute intestinal obstruction associated with anomalies of mid-gut rotation.ALTHOUGH it is well known that con-LTHC3UGH it is well known that congenital anomalies of the gut are a rare cause of the celiac syndrome in older children 7,
8 no reference has been found in an article or pediatric surgical textbook 2--~,, &dquo;, 10, 12 to similar anomalies presenting in early infancy with diarrhea and failure to thrive. In our cases these symptoms resulted from subacute intestinal obstruction associated with abnormalities of mid-gut rotation.
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