1A-S5-4

CURRENT MANAGEMENT OF HIRSCHSPRUNG’S DISEASE

Arnold G. Coran, MD

Professor of Surgery and Head of the Section of Pediatric Surgery, University of Michigan Medial School

Surgeon-in-Chief, C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

 

This lecture will update our current knowledge of Hirschsprung’s Disease by focusing on the following issues:

 

1.      Definitive Diagnosis

a)        Radiologic

b)        Histologic

 

2.      Type of Pull-Through

a)        Colostomy

 

3.      Definitive Pull-Through in the Newborn

 

4.      Management of Total Colonic Disease

 

5.      Management of Short Segment Disease

 

6.      Enterocolitis

 

7.      Intestinal Neuronal Dysplasia (IND)