Resumen de Obstrucción intestinal de debut tardío

E. Cid París, Gonzalo Galicia Poblet, Gema Arriola Pereda, M.E. Rubio Jiménez, M. Pangua Gómez, Ana Serrano González, J. M. Jiménez Bustos

• Hirschsprung's disease is a congenital disorder of the colon in which certain nerve cells, known as ganglion cells, are absent, causing chronic constipation. A barium enema is the mainstay of diagnosis of Hirschsprung's, though a rectal biopsy showing the lack of ganglion cells is the only certain method of diagnosis. The usual treatment is excision of the aganglionic colon and "pull-through" surgery of ganglionic colon with a coloanal anastomosis. We report a case of Hirschsprung's disease with bowel obstruction in the infant period.