Difficulty: Medium
Average Score: 79%
Simulated
A nurse is caring for an infant who has inadequate motility of part of the intestine resulting in a mechanical obstruction. The nurse should identify this finding as a manifestation of which of the following disorders?
Correct answer
C
Rationale
The correct answer is Hirschsprung's disease (A), not C. Hirschsprung's disease involves absent ganglion cells, causing impaired peristalsis and obstruction. Pyloric stenosis causes gastric obstruction, Crohn's is inflammatory, and enterocolitis is not congenital. The document's answer is incorrect; A is the rationale-based answer.