meconium peritonitis

Intra-abdominal calcification is uncommon in newborns and has several causes of which meconium peritonitis is the most frequent.

Neonates with intra-abdominal calcification as a complication of meconium peritonitis can be observed.

The types of meconium peritonitis were cystic, meconium pseudocyst and meconium ascites.

Meconium peritonitis should be considered in newborns with intra-abdominal calcification.

Etiology

 fetal intestinal perforation

• Cystic fibrosis
  • digestive cystic fibrosis

• fetal intestinal tumors
  • jejunal congenital fibrosarcoma (12776248)

Complications

 disseminated intravascular meconium
 meconium per vagina

References

 Meconium peritonitis presenting as abdominal calcification: three cases with different pathology. Dewan P, Faridi MM, Singhal R, Arora SK, Rathi V, Bhatt S, Aggarwal SK. Ann Trop Paediatr. 2011;31(2):163-7. PMID: 21575323

 Yavner DL, Lage JM. Meconium peritonitis in stillbirths. Pediatr Pathol. 1988;8(6):617-23. PMID: 3244598

 Fetal meconium peritonitis complicated with bacterial infection. Yanfang Z, Chun H, Limin W, Li Z, Zhu L, Huamei H. J Clin Ultrasound. 2008 Jun;36(5):312-4. PMID: 18386824