PEDIATRICS Vol. 10 No. 3 September 1952, pp. 253-264
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INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION IN THE NEWBORN INFANT DUE TO AGENESIS OF THE MYENTERIC PLEXUS (Congenital Megacolon)

WILLIS J. POTTS M.D.1, JOSEPH D. BOGGS M.D.2, and HARVEY WHITE M.D.3

1 The Department of Surgery of the Children's Memorial Hospital and from the Otho S. A. Sprague Memorial Institute Laboratories, Chicago.
2 The Department of Pathology of the Children's Memorial Hospital and from the Otho S. A. Sprague Memorial Institute Laboratories, Chicago.
3 The Department of Roentgenology of the Children's Memorial Hospital and from the Otho S. A. Sprague Memorial Institute Laboratories, Chicago.

Agenesis of the myenteric plexus or congenital megacolon often manifests itself by intestinal obstruction in the newborn infant. Medical management in such cases is not effective. If the infant's condition warrants, immediate resection of the neurogenically abnormal bowel should be done. In the poor-risk infant sigmoid-colostomy is the procedure of choice.

Submitted on April 16, 1952