"Hirschsprung Disease" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Congenital MEGACOLON resulting from the absence of ganglion cells (aganglionosis) in a distal segment of the LARGE INTESTINE. The aganglionic segment is permanently contracted thus causing dilatation proximal to it. In most cases, the aganglionic segment is within the RECTUM and SIGMOID COLON.
| Descriptor ID |
D006627
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C06.198.439 C06.405.469.158.701.439 C16.131.314.439
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| Concept/Terms |
Hirschsprung Disease- Hirschsprung Disease
- Disease, Hirschsprung
- Megacolon, Congenital
- Hirschsprung's Disease
- Disease, Hirschsprung's
- Hirschsprungs Disease
- Megacolon, Aganglionic
- Aganglionic Megacolon
- Congenital Megacolon
Aganglionosis, Colonic- Aganglionosis, Colonic
- Colonic Aganglionosis
- Total Colonic Aganglionosis
- Aganglionosis, Total Colonic
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| 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Hirschsprung Disease" by people in Profiles.
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Woode D, Avansino J, Sawin R, Cornwell EE, Waldhausen J, Gow KW. Asa G Yancey: The first to describe a modification of the Swenson Technique for Hirschsprung disease. J Pediatr Surg. 2022 Aug; 57(8):1701-1703.
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Buchbinder D, Hauck F, Albert MH, Rack A, Bakhtiar S, Shcherbina A, Deripapa E, Sullivan KE, Perelygina L, Eloit M, Neven B, P?rot P, Moshous D, Suarez F, Bodemer C, Bonilla FA, Vaz LE, Krol AL, Klein C, Seppanen M, Nugent DJ, Singh J, Ochs HD. Rubella Virus-Associated Cutaneous Granulomatous Disease: a Unique Complication in Immune-Deficient Patients, Not Limited to DNA Repair Disorders. J Clin Immunol. 2019 01; 39(1):81-89.
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Jackson SR, Guner YS, Woo R, Randolph LM, Ford H, Shin CE. L1CAM mutation in association with X-linked hydrocephalus and Hirschsprung's disease. Pediatr Surg Int. 2009 Sep; 25(9):823-5.