Neonatal small left colon syndrome.

1. Twenty infants with symptoms and roentgenographic signs of low colonic obstruction are presented.2. A barium enema examination performed in each patient showed identical roentgenographic findings.3. This entity was shown not to be Hirschsprung’s disease. Surgery is contraindicated. The only procedure required is diagnostic barium enema examination, this being also curative.4. This entity is not the "meconium plug syndrome," although plugs have been removed in a few instances.5. A highly significant correlation exists between this syndrome and maternal diabetes.