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Isolated hypoganglionosis (IH) is proposed to be one of the allied disorders of Hirschsprung’s disease (ADHD), which is rare and resembles the symptoms of Hirschsprung’s disease (HD), and associated with decreased numbers of intestinal ganglion cells [1]. Historically, the existence of this entity has been questioned [2, 3].
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The authors wish to thank all of the doctors in the 156 pediatric surgery departments at major universities and hospitals throughout Japan for replying to the questionnaires. This study was supported by a grant from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan (Health and Labour Sciences Research Grants for Research on Intractable Diseases (H23-042, H24-037, and H26-045)).
Ethical approval: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. And, for this type of study, formal consent was not required. This retrospective study was also approved by the ethics committee for clinical research of Kyushu University Hospital (No. 28-155).
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Obata, S., Kirino, K., Taguchi, T. (2019). Isolated Hypoganglionosis, Acquired. In: Taguchi, T., Matsufuji, H., Ieiri, S. (eds) Hirschsprung’s Disease and the Allied Disorders. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3606-5_38
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