Symptoms and diagnostic criteria of acquired Megacolon - a systematic literature review

BMC Gastroenterology

Table 1 Characteristics of Studies Investigating the Diagnosis of AMC

Authors	Year	Study Design	No. pts	Control
Kantor [7]	1924	Cohort	62	606
Kobak et al. [30]	1962	Case reports	3	0
Rios-Dalenz et al. [31]	1975	Case series	49	25
Goulston [40]	1976	Cohort	82	52
Lane and Todd [19]	1977	Case series	42	0
Taylor et al. [26]	1980	Cohort	15	12
Ryan [29]	1982	Cohort	6	60
Preston et al. [9]	1985	Cohort	20	50
Barnes et al. [20]	1986	Case series	10	0
Stabile et al. [3]	1991	Case series	40	0
Koch et al. [35]	1993	Cohort	6	13
Koch et al. [34]	1996	Cohort	10	10
Gattuso et al. [36]	1996	Case series	3	10
Gattuso et al. [22]	1997	Cohort	48	0
Gattuso et al. [32]	1997	Cohort	6	17
Gattuso et al. [27]	1998	Cohort	1	44
Chen et al. [33]	2002	Cohort	5	24
Lee et al. [23]	2005	Cohort	9	10
Meier-Ruge et al. [37]	2006	Case series	63	21
Wedel et al. [38]	2006	Cohort	8	12
Iantorno et al. [24]	2007	Cohort	9	10
Yoshino et al. [28]	2007	Cohort	4	0
Ohkubo et al. [39]	2014	Cohort	31	16
Total			532	992

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