Open AccessA 6-year retrospective review of histopathological pattern of surgical biopsies in children with refractory constipation in a Tertiary Hospital in Ghana
Author(s) -
Abiboye Yifieyeh,
Babatunde Duduyemi,
Anthony Enimil
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
african journal of paediatric surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.163
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 0189-6725
pISSN - 0974-5998
DOI - 10.4103/ajps.ajps_70_17
Subject(s) - medicine , histopathology , constipation , biopsy , retrospective cohort study , work up , presentation (obstetrics) , chronic constipation , disease , hirschsprung's disease , pediatrics , general surgery , surgery , pathology
Children with chronic constipation dating to infancy frequently undergo rectal biopsy in order to rule out Hirschsprung's disease (HD) which is a common cause of this sort of presentation. Few publications have however focused on the documentation of the proportion of such patients who truly had histopathological findings confirming the disease. In this preliminary work, we aim to present the histopathological findings of children who had rectal biopsies in our centre from 2009 to 2014.