Image of the Month: Enterocolitis Following a Pull-through for Total Colonic Hirschsprung Disease in a 2-Year-Old Boy

We present a case of a 2-year-old boy with total colonic Hirschsprung disease (HD) who underwent an ileostomy as a newborn, and then colectomy and pull-through at 10 months of age. Since then he has presented four times with enterocolitis. The case is presented with a focus on evaluating patients wi...

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Autores principales: Apte, Anisha, McKenna, Elise, Levitt, Marc A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Georg Thieme Verlag KG 2020
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7796827/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33437565
http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0040-1721050
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description We present a case of a 2-year-old boy with total colonic Hirschsprung disease (HD) who underwent an ileostomy as a newborn, and then colectomy and pull-through at 10 months of age. Since then he has presented four times with enterocolitis. The case is presented with a focus on evaluating patients with HD who present with obstructive symptoms following corrective surgery. A key image is presented along with questions formatted as a quiz to guide readers through critically evaluating the case.
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spelling pubmed-77968272021-01-11 Image of the Month: Enterocolitis Following a Pull-through for Total Colonic Hirschsprung Disease in a 2-Year-Old Boy Apte, Anisha McKenna, Elise Levitt, Marc A. European J Pediatr Surg Rep We present a case of a 2-year-old boy with total colonic Hirschsprung disease (HD) who underwent an ileostomy as a newborn, and then colectomy and pull-through at 10 months of age. Since then he has presented four times with enterocolitis. The case is presented with a focus on evaluating patients with HD who present with obstructive symptoms following corrective surgery. A key image is presented along with questions formatted as a quiz to guide readers through critically evaluating the case. Georg Thieme Verlag KG 2020-01 2021-01-09 /pmc/articles/PMC7796827/ /pubmed/33437565 http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0040-1721050 Text en The Author(s). This is an open access article published by Thieme under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, permitting unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction so long as the original work is properly cited. ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Image of the Month: Enterocolitis Following a Pull-through for Total Colonic Hirschsprung Disease in a 2-Year-Old Boy
title Image of the Month: Enterocolitis Following a Pull-through for Total Colonic Hirschsprung Disease in a 2-Year-Old Boy
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title_short Image of the Month: Enterocolitis Following a Pull-through for Total Colonic Hirschsprung Disease in a 2-Year-Old Boy
title_sort image of the month: enterocolitis following a pull-through for total colonic hirschsprung disease in a 2-year-old boy
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0040-1721050
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