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Arch Surg. 2000;135:1394.

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Hirschsprung's disease is a congenital failure of distal migration of the intestinal ganglion cells in the myenteric (Auerbach) and submucosal (Meissner) plexuses, resulting in functional intestinal obstruction; also called congenital aganglionosis coli.¹

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