Patient Data
Age: Neonate
Frontal
Plain film shows dilated bowel loops.
AP
Lower GI contrast study with multiple filling defects of meconium plugs.
Specimen photo
Meconium cast which passed as the enema was performed.
Case Discussion
- neonate with symptoms of a meconium plug syndrome
- plain film shows dilated bowel loops
- enema study shows microcolon with a long cylindrical filling defect in the sigmoid and descending colon
- water-soluble contrast enema induced meconium passage
- on the photo meconium cast is demonstrated, which passed as the enema was performed