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Definition – Distal ileal intraluminal obstruction due to presence of abnormally viscid meconium. First described in 1905 by Karl Landsteiner.
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Karl Landsteiner (1968–1943) – Nobel Prize winning (for description of blood groups) Austrian physician, who in spare time also discovered poliovirus.
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Edward BD Neuhauser (1908–1987) – Chief radiologist at Boston Children’s Hospital.
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Jan Mikulicz – Radecki (1850–1905) – Polish surgeon, assisted Billroth in Vienna, and set up famous surgical clinical in Breslau, (then) Germany.
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Harry Craden Bishop, C Everett Koop (b 1916) – American pediatric surgeons – latter more famous for becoming Surgeon General in the United States (1982–1989) and first editor of Journal of Pediatric Surgery.
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Thomas Vincent Santulli (1915–1997) – American pediatric surgeon at Columbia University, New York.
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Harald Hirschsprung (1830–1916) – Danish pediatrician
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Fictile – (Latin) “clay-like”, i.e., capable of being molded.
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Burrill Bernard Crohn (1884–1983) – American gastroenterologist
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Sinha, C.K., Davenport, M., Ward, H.C. (2010). Meconium Ileus. In: Sinha, C., Davenport, M. (eds) Handbook of Pediatric Surgery. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-132-3_16
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