Hirschsprung's disease

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 345, Issue 7883, 2012, Pages

  Arshad, A ^a   Powell, C ^b   Tighe, M P ^a  

^a POOLE HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b Upton Surgery   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGANGLIONIC SECTION RESECTION; ANORECTAL PRESSURE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BARIUM ENEMA; CASE REPORT; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSTIPATION; DECOMPRESSION; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIGITAL RECTAL EXAMINATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENTEROCOLITIS; FECES INCONTINENCE; HIRSCHSPRUNG DISEASE; HUMAN; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECTUM BIOPSY; RESUSCITATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

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

EID: 84869158389     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.e5521     Document Type: Article

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