title: [Laparoscopic surgery in Hirschsprung's disease].
abstract: The laparoscopic treatment of benign conditions of the colon represents only one of the numerous application fields of the modern laparoscopic techniques in pediatric surgery. Until the half of the 1990's, the surgical treatment of choice for Hirschsprung's disease has been the procedure ideated by Soave in the early 1960's. Nowadays, the optimal treatment in the classic forms of aganglionic megacolon consists in performing, in neonatal age or in the first months of life, a transanal extramucous pull-through. This approach can be integrated by a laparoscopic step. From September 2000, at the Department of Pediatric Surgery, Bologna University, we have operated 21 cases of congenital aganglionic megacolon with this technique.
authors.affiliation: Chirurgia Pediatrica, Scuola di Specializzazione in Chirurgia Pediatrica, Via Massarenti, 11-40138 Bologna. m.lima@med.unibo.it
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lima
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Antonellini
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Ruggeri
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Libri
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: De Biagi
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Gargano
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gentili
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006627:Hirschsprung Disease / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D010535:Laparoscopy / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male