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Abstract

Ectopia cordis is a rare form of congenital anomaly in which the heart is completely or incompletely outside the mediastinum. Abbott (J936) defined this entity as a displacement so that the heart passes out of the thorax and comes to lie either upon the outer surface of the body or in the abdominal cavity." Recently an experience of ectopia cordis , so called thoraco-abdominal type, and an additional autopsy case among the hospital records prompted this report.