Catalog

Cantrell pentalogy

No MMS code

Link to WHO Definition

Cantrell pentalogy – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/1894530105

Cantrell pentalogy is a malformation syndrome of unknown etiology that consists of the following five features: midline supraumbilical abdominal wall defects; deficiency of the anterior diaphragm; defects in the diaphragmatic pericardium; defects of the lower sternum and congenital intracardiac defects, with exteriorisation of the heart, or 'ectopia cordis', being the most severe malformation.