Author

Number of specimens

Duodenal plug

Crown-Rump Length

Explanation for Atresia

Tandler, 1902

[1]

7 + 4 descriptions

Yes

12.5 to 15 mm

Persistence of epithelial plug

Lynn & Espinas, 1959 [5]

89

Plugging and/or vacuolation in less than one third of cases

7 to 59 mm

Epithelial proliferation simultaneously in the colon.

Moutsouris, 1966 [6]

70

No complete occlusion

7 to 40 mm

Never complete occlusion, always vacuolation

Boyden, et al. 1967 [2]

4

Epithelium fills or fills partially the lumen

9.5 to 25 mm

Induction of atresia due to impaired formation of the pancreaticobiliary junction