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Rectal prolapse in children
R Severijnen1, C Festen, F van der Staak
1Department of Pediatric Surgery, St Radboud Hospital, Catholic University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
The Netherlands Journal of Surgery
|December 1, 1989
Abstract:
Rectal prolapse in children is nowadays a rare anomaly. Potty training in young children is the common cause and the resulting prolapse can be treated conservatively. In children with refractory prolapse, sclerosing injections may be used. Operative treatment by posterior rectopexy is only indicated in the very few cases of long-standing prolapse.