Treatment of uncomplicated meconium ileus by gastrografin enema: A preliminary report

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Abstract

Four patients with established meconium ileus were treated successfully by a technic in which Gastrografin is instilled into the colon and terminal ileum under carefully controlled conditions.

Details of the technic and the indications for its use are discussed, together with some suggested precautions to be taken when employing this new method of management.

Since this paper was prepared, another three patients with uncomplicated meconium ileus have been successfully treated by this method.

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Based on a paper presented before the Section of Paediatric Surgery, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, Adelaide, South Australia, May 20–24, 1968.

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First Assistant Surgeon, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne; Part-time Research Fellow, Gastroenterological Research Unit, Royal Children's Hospital Research Foundation, Melbourne, Australia.

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