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A large, nonspecific, chronic ulcer was found in the sigmoid colon of a 13-year-old child with neglected, undiagnosed Hirschsprung’s disease (HD). There is no known association between HD and colonic ulcers, suggesting that the ulcer was a true stercoraceous ulcer of the colon and not an intrinsic defect of the aganglionotic bowel.
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Golinsky, D., Freud, E., Steinberg, R.M. et al. A stercoraceous ulcer of the colon in neglected Hirschsprung’s disease. Pediatr Surg Int 13, 55–57 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/s003830050244
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s003830050244