Skip to main navigation Skip to main content
  • KAPS
  • E-Submission

APS : Advances in Pediatric Surgery

OPEN ACCESS
ABOUT
BROWSE ARTICLES
EDITORIAL POLICY
FOR CONTRIBUTORS

Page Path

1
results for

"Skip area"

Article category

Keywords

Publication year

Authors

"Skip area"

Original Article

[English]
Total Colonic Aganglionosis With Skip Area
Suk koo Lee, Woo Yong Lee, Hyun Hahk Kim
J Korean Assoc Pediatr Surg 1998;4(1):74-78.   Published online June 30, 1998
DOI: https://doi.org/10.13029/jkaps.1998.4.1.74

Early recognition and surgical treatment of Hirschsprung's disease prevents serious mortality and morbidity from enterocolitis and obstruction. Usually this disease is characterized by a single aganglionic segment of the colon extending distally to the anal margin. In surgical treatment, the surgeon performs a frozen section biopsy to confirm whether there are ganglion cells. If there are intervening ganglionic sites in aganglionic bowel, there may be confusion in diagnosis and treatment. The authors experienced one case of total colonic aganglionosis with skip area. A transverse loop colostomy was performed on a 7 day-old male baby with colon perforation due to Hirschsprung's disease. But intestinal obstruction persisted and required two more operations to find the true nature of the disease. There were aganglionic segments from the anal margin to the terminal ileum 3.7cm proximal to the ileocecal valve. The entire transverse colon and appendix were normally ganglionated.

  • 1 View
  • 0 Download