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THEODORE C. JEWETT, Jr., M.D.; LEON J. LEAHY, M.D.; JOHN LANIGAN, M.D.

AMA Arch Surg. 1959;79(3):455-458.

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Introduction

Until recently, the clinical course of aganglionic megacolon was considered to be of a chronic and protracted nature with obstipation as the presenting symptom. In the past few years, however, several excellent papers have appeared by Dorman¹ and Sieber and Girdany² in which the severe and fulminating course of symptomatic Hirschsprung's disease in infants has been described. Because Hirschsprung's disease is still associated with chronic constipation in the minds of many physicians and consequently not thought of when an infant presents with an acute fulminating process, it was felt worth while to review the experience in the past 10 years at the Buffalo Children's Hospital with this disease in the very young infant.

The cases selected for this review were all under 6 months of age at the time of their hospital admission, and all had had disabling symptoms starting before the age of 1 month. A . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Buffalo

From the Department of Surgery, Buffalo Children's Hospital and the University of Buffalo School of Medicine.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Feb. 27, 1959.

Supported by the Wood and Brooks Company.

Read at the 16th Annual Meeting of the Central Surgical Association, Montreal, Feb. 21, 1959.

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