MECONIUM-PLUG SYNDROME AND HIRSCHSPRUNGS DISEASE

1 January 1965

journal article
research article

Vol. 92 (5) , 225-+

Abstract

Two infants are described who fulfilled all criteria for this syndrome but who were not rendered asymptomatic, as normally anticipated, by removal of the plug. Subsequent studies revealed the presence of Hirschsprung''s disease in both patients. This diagnosis should be considered when an infant with meconium-plug obstruction of the colon fails to follow the usual satisfactory clinical course after the plug has been passed.

Keywords

BARIUM SULFATE
COLONIC DISEASES
COLOSTOMY
INFANT, NEWBORN
INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES
INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION
MECONIUM
MEGACOLON
RADIOGRAPHY
RECTUM

This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:

Similarities of Mechanical Intestinal Obstruction and Aganglionic Megacolon in the Newborn Infant
New England Journal of Medicine, 1960
The meconium plug syndrome.
1956