Hirschprung or Achalasia?? - longislandmd2b

[ArchivalUser]

Does anyone know what the differences between Achalasia and Hirschprungs disease are? They lok the same to me, I knowI'm missing something.

Thanks!!

[ArchivalUser]

achlahsia have lack of myenteric plexus & in hirshsprung's both myenteric & meissener's are missing.

[ArchivalUser]

Achalasia=lower esophageal sphicter; hirschprung=distal sigmoid and rectum

[ArchivalUser]

lol at lostinprep

[ArchivalUser]

scg, are you sure that in hirschprung the ganglions of "meissener" neural plexus are absent?

[ArchivalUser]

according to BRS pathology, the pathophysiology of both of them is the absence of myentirc ganglion cells and just the place is different.

[ArchivalUser]

that's weir, because I am sure that it's absence of both myenteric(Auerbach) and submucusal(Meissner) ganglia!!! remeber both from Neural crest origin!! (key)
I check it in my Kaplan book and
Robbins too

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bergkamp, did i say something wrong? correct me if i did