Gastroschisis with Hirschsprung's disease: A therapeutic dilemma

Journal of Pediatric Surgery

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1724-1726

  Rex, Dean ^a   Chowdhury, Moti M ^a   O'Malley, Angela J ^a   Nash, Ruth ^a   Okoye, Bruce O ^a  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gastroschisis; Hirschsprung's disease

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; PROKINETIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL WALL DEFECT; ABDOMINAL WALL HERNIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMORBIDITY; ENTERIC FEEDING; FETUS; FETUS DISEASE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; GASTROSCHISIS; HIRSCHSPRUNG DISEASE; HUMAN; ILEOSTOMY; INFANT; INTESTINE FUNCTION; INTESTINE PERFORATION; INTESTINE RESECTION; LAPAROTOMY; LARGE INTESTINE; LIVER; MALE; NEWBORN; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PRENATAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM; RECTUM BIOPSY; SIGMOID; SMALL INTESTINE; STOMACH; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOMITING;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; GASTROSCHISIS; HIRSCHSPRUNG DISEASE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; RARE DISEASES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77955911573     PISSN: 00223468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2010.05.023     Document Type: Article

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