Paediatrics - Abdominal pain in children

Question 1

what is meckel’s diverticulum?

Answer 1

• congenital

- out pouching or bulge in lower part of the small intestine

Question 2

Hirschsprung’s disease?

Answer 2

• failure of ganglionic cells to migrate into hindgut
• thus, lack of coordinated peristalsis in region lacking the ganglia
• results in an obstruction at a junction or transition point between normal bowel and distal aganglionic bowel