Value of a score in the electromanometrical diagnosis of neuronal intestinal dysplasia.

Anorectal manometry was performed in a series of 8 children where NID was histochemically confirmed or suspected. The results were transferred to a electromanometric score theoretically worked out previously. Clinical symptoms as well as histological and manometric findings have been compared concerning the meaningfulness of the electromanometric score in the diagnosis of NID. It was impossible to make a statistical statement due to the small number of patients we examined. It seems, however, that certain electromanometric parameters in NID appear regularly which, when combined in a score, make manometric diagnosis of NID sufficiently reliable.