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Experts in the Colorectal and Pelvic Malformation Center explain the differences between laxatives and stool softeners, and when each is typically used when treating patients with colorectal and pelvic malformations.

Nurse practitioner Cassandra Morrill, in the Colorectal and Pelvic Malformation Center at Boston Children’s Hospital, helps identify the differences between enemas, an appendicostomy, and a cecostomy.

Boston Children’s Colorectal and Pelvic Malformation Center nurse practitioners Amelia Henaghan and Paula Cruz share details of what bowel management can look like for children.

Dr. Erin McNamara, associate director in the Colorectal and Pelvic Malformation Center at Boston Children’s, answers questions about children who have bladder dysfunction, and why urodynamics testing is performed.

Our experts in the Colorectal and Pelvic Malformation Center answer the most common questions families have when their child needs surgery.

Nurse practitioner Amelia Henaghan, in the Colorectal and Pelvic Malformation Center at Boston Children’s Hospital, describes what a sacral nerve modulation is and how a patient qualifies to use this...

Experts in the Colorectal and Pelvic Malformation Center at Boston Children’s Hospital explain the different types of imperforate anus in boys. 

Dr. Belinda Dickie, Director of the Colorectal and Pelvic Malformation Center, explains what omphalocele-exstrophy imperforate anus-spinal anomalies (OEIS) is, and what other anomalies are associated with it.

Boston Children’s plastic surgeon Dr. Brian Labow discusses what causes Apert syndrome.