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Some new observations on megacolon in infancy and childhood with special reference to the management of megasigmoid and megarectum

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  1. From The Royal Hospital for Sick Children and The Department of Paediatric Surgery, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland

    J. F. R. Bentley (F.R.C.S.)

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Abridgment of original article read at the joint meeting of the American Proctologic Society and the Section of Proctology of the Royal Society of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 9 to 14, 1964.

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Bentley, J.F.R. Some new observations on megacolon in infancy and childhood with special reference to the management of megasigmoid and megarectum. Dis Colon Rectum 7, 462–470 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02616873

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