Surgical and pathological study of hirschsprugn's disease treatment by modified Duhamel operation in one stag versus two stages procedure

ABSTRACT

This work included 19 patients [17 males, 2 females], whose age ranged from 2 to 6 years, selected from Surgical and Pediatric Outpatient Clinics of El-Menia University Hospital in the period from January 1991 to December 1992. The aim of this work was to appraise the modified Duhammel operation which was used in the study with or without preoperative colostomy in patients complaining of Hirschsprung's disease with mild abdominal distention. The postoperative results were promising. Follow up of the patients ranged from 6 to 24 months. This procedure without colostomy shortened the surgical management of such patients and minimized the postoperative period of illness