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Neuromuscular Reflexes in Hirschsprung's Disease
Author(s) -
VARMA K. K.,
STEPHENS F. DOUGLAS
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1973.tb06806.x
Subject(s) - medicine , hirschsprung's disease , reflex , megacolon , distension , neuromuscular disease , anesthesia , surgery , disease
The neuromuscular reflexes before and after the Swenson rectosigmoidectomy procedure and the Duhamel operation for Hirschsprung's disease have been studied to determine and compare the responses of the anal sphincters to “rectal” distension and to evaluate the state of continence.