Difficulties in making the diagnosis of Hirschsprung disease in early infancy

Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 716-719

  Nofech Mozes, Y ^a   Rachmel, A ^a   Schonfeld, T ^a   Schwarz, M ^a   Steinberg, R ^a,b   Ashkenazi, Shai ^a,c  

^a SCHNEIDER CHILDREN S MEDICAL CENTER OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c Department of Paediatrics A ^*  (Israel)

Author keywords

Enterocolitis; Hirschsprung disease; Infants; Neonates

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ANAMNESIS; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON BIOPSY; COLOSTOMY; CONSTIPATION; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIARRHEA; ENTEROCOLITIS; FEMALE; HIRSCHSPRUNG DISEASE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; INCIDENCE; INFANCY; INFANT; INTESTINE DISTENSION; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; NEWBORN; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM BIOPSY; SYMPTOM; VOMITING; WEIGHT GAIN;

COLOSTOMY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIARRHEA; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ENTEROCOLITIS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HIRSCHSPRUNG DISEASE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 10644277059     PISSN: 10344810     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1754.2004.00519.x     Document Type: Article

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