Management of the newborn with imperforate anus. Initial management of imperforate anus by simple dilatation, decompressing colostomy, perineal anoplasty, or combined abdominoperineal pull-through is evaluated in sixty-two patients over a twenty-year period at the Yale-New Haven Hospital

MeSH terms

• Abnormalities, Multiple
• Anal Canal / embryology
• Anus, Imperforate* / diagnosis
• Anus, Imperforate* / mortality
• Colostomy*
• Dilatation
• Female
• Humans
• Infant, Newborn
• Male
• Methods
• Rectum / abnormalities
• Rectum / embryology
• Rectum / surgery
• Terminology as Topic
• Urogenital System / embryology