Diseases

Megacolon

Dilatation of the COLON, often to alarming dimensions. There are various types of megacolon including congenital megacolon in HIRSCHSPRUNG DISEASE, idiopathic megacolon in CONSTIPATION, and TOXIC MEGACOLON.

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Dilatation of the COLON, often to alarming dimensions. There are various types of megacolon including congenital megacolon in HIRSCHSPRUNG DISEASE, idiopathic megacolon in CONSTIPATION, and TOXIC MEGACOLON.

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  • Megacolons

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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.

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  1. C06w.405w.469w.158.701w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Megacolon. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D008531. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D008531
  2. Megacolon. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megacolon
  3. Megacolon. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1754226