Journal of Pediatric Surgery
Volume 11, Issue 5 , Pages 723-733, October 1976

High-pouch imperforate anus treated by electromagnetic bougienage and subsequent perineal repair☆

  • W. Hardy Hendren

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for reprint requests: W. Hardy Hendren, M.D., Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Mass. 02114.
    • Division of Pediatric Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, the Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass, USA
    • Francis Bitter National Magnet Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass, USA
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  • J. Richard Hale

      Affiliations

    • Division of Pediatric Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, the Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass, USA
    • Francis Bitter National Magnet Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass, USA

Abstract 

Four male infants with imperforate anus were treated by electromagnetic bougienage and subsequent perineal anoplasty with division of rectourethral fistula. Each had high-pouch imperforate anus of the supralevator type, with rectourethral fishtula at or above the level of the membranous urethra. Perineal anoplasty was accomplished in all four, with division of the rectourethral fistula, avoiding the need to do a sacral-abdominal-perineal procedure, as had been customary previously in similar cases.

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☆ Presented before the 7th Annual Meeting of the American Pediatric Surgical Association, Boca Raton, Fla., April 29–May 1, 1976.Supported in part by a contract (NSF-C670 TASK 4) with the National Science Foundation, RANN Program.

PII: 0022-3468(76)90096-8

Journal of Pediatric Surgery
Volume 11, Issue 5 , Pages 723-733, October 1976

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