Both the Swenson and the Soave procedures have been adapted as transanal approaches. Our purpose is to compare the outcomes and complications between transanal Swenson and Soave procedures.This clinical analysis involved a retrospective series of 148 pediatric patients with HD from Dec, 2001, to Dec, 2015. Perioperative/operative characteristics, postoperative complications, and outcomes betwee...

For six years we have been practising abdominal resection for Hirschsprung's disease. The method is also known as segmental resection, anterior resection or State operation. The operative technique has, apart from certain small alterations, always remained the same. In the application of this procedure certain aspects have been revealed which are important for the theoretical interpretation of ...

The process of adaptive enzyme formation has aroused considerable interest through the years. In view of the interesting results of several recent investigations of the effects of radiations on adaptive enzyme formation (Spiegelman et al., 1951; Swenson and Giese, 1950; Brandt et al., 1951; Billen and Lichstein, 1952; Swenson, 1950) it seemed desirable to investigate the effects of x-rays on th...