Abstract
This book tries to cover the pathophysiology, clinical presentation, available diagnostic studies, and therapy for Hirschsprung's disease. This is a complex disorder, and the term has been applied over the years to a number of different diseases, a fact that has become apparent as more sophisticated studies of physiology and morphology have become available. As frequently occurs in multiauthored books, the chapters are unevenly written; this book suffers additionally from considerable repetition and shifting terminology from chapter to chapter. In light of this terminology problem, chapter 4, which covers terminology, should perhaps have been the first chapter. Its purpose is to define the terms, but it is followed near the end of the book by a chapter on Anal Sphincter Achalasia, which introduces a different classification and reviews the pathophysiology again. In the first chapter on terminology the term achalasia is mentioned only briefly in passing. This kind of inconsistency
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