%0 Journal Article
%T Extrathoracic heart in northern Cameroon: a case report
%A Tantchou Tchoumi Jacques Cabral
%A Alessandro Giamberti
%A Gianfranco Butera
%A Alessandro Frigiola
%J Pan African Medical Journal
%D 2009
%I African Field Epidemiology Network
%X Tantchou et al report a case of ectopia cordis with successful surgical correction on a 7 months old child from northern Cameroon. Sternal clefts, ectopia cordis, and Cantrell's pentalogy continue to be very rare congenital anomalies in pediatric surgery. The prenatal diagnosis is easily made with ultrasound by visualizing the heart outside the thoracic cavity. Ectopia cordis is frequently associated with other congenital defects involving multiple organ systems. We report a case of ectopia cordis with successful surgical correction on a 7 months old child from northern Cameroon.
%K ectopia cordis
%U http://www.panafrican-med-journal.com/content/article/2/8/pdf/8.pdf