Evaluation and treatment of the patient with Hirschsprung disease who is not doing well after a pull-through procedure

Seminars in Pediatric Surgery

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 146-153

  Levitt, Marc A ^a   Dickie, Belinda ^a   Peña, Alberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bowel management; Complications; Enterocolitis; Hirschsprung disease; Incontinence; Obstruction; Pull through; Soiling

Indexed keywords

ENEMA; LAXATIVE; LOPERAMIDE; METRONIDAZOLE; PECTIN;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CONSTIPATION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIET THERAPY; ENTEROCOLITIS; FECES INCONTINENCE; HIRSCHSPRUNG DISEASE; HUMAN; INTESTINE DISTENSION; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULL THROUGH OPERATION; REOPERATION; SURGICAL DRAINAGE;

ALGORITHMS; COLON; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; ENTEROCOLITIS; FECAL INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; HIRSCHSPRUNG DISEASE; HUMANS; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77951059305     PISSN: 10558586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.sempedsurg.2009.11.013     Document Type: Article

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