Symptomatology, pathophysiology, diagnostic work-up, and treatment of Hirschsprung disease in infancy and childhood

Current Gastroenterology Reports

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 245-253

  De Lorijn, Fleur ^b   Boeckxstaens, Guy E ^b   Benninga, Marc A ^a  

^a EMMA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENEMA; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE;

ANORECTAL PRESSURE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSTIPATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ENTEROCOLITIS; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT FUNCTION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HIRSCHSPRUNG DISEASE; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HUMAN; INCONTINENCE; INFANT; INFANT DISEASE; INTESTINE MALFORMATION; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; LAPAROTOMY; MECONIUM; MECONIUM ILEUS; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECTUM BIOPSY; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGMOIDECTOMY; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TOXIC MEGACOLON;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONSTIPATION; HIRSCHSPRUNG DISEASE; HUMANS; INFANT; MECONIUM;

EID: 34249911207     PISSN: 15228037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11894-007-0026-z     Document Type: Review

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