Abstract

LORENZO RODRIGUEZ, Tulio; FERREIRA MORENO, Víctor  and  MARTI CORUNA, María. Aganglionosis of rectum present in the adult. Rev Cubana Cir [online]. 2009, vol.48, n.3, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1561-2945.

We report the case a female patient referred with the diagnostic criterion of colon tumor. Patients had a marked abdominal distention from more than a month, without defecation, although with gases ejection, and neither reports of pain nor vomits. At admission and to study in depth the anamnesis, she expressed that during its childhood had a delay to defecate. She was operated on with a rectum biopsy, and its study defined la presence of aganglionosis. The non habitual documentation of this disease present in adults emphasizes the singularity of this case.

Keywords : Aganglionic megacolon; aganglionosis; Hirschsprung's disease.

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