Meconium

Etiology: Sterile bowel contents of fetus which are expelled in first stool, composed of materials ingested in utero: intestinal epithelial cells, lanugo, mucous, amniotic fluid, bile, water
Imaging:
DDX:
Complications: Meconium aspiration syndrome, meconium plug syndrome, meconium obstruction of prematurity, uncomplicated meconium ileus, complicated meconium ileus, distal intestinal obstruction syndrome
Treatment:
Clinical: Visually is viscous, sticky, tar-like, dark in color

Clinical Cases of Meconium

Clinical image of meconium plug — Clinical image shows a contiguous plug of meconium that was expelled by the patient after a water-soluble contrast enema.

Clinical image of meconium plug — Clinical image shows a contiguous plug of meconium that was expelled by the patient after a water-soluble contrast enema.

Clinical image of meconium plug — Clinical image obtained after performance of a high osmolar water soluble enema and subsequent evacuation of contrast shows a one foot long continuous plug of meconium.