Gastrointestinal surgery in autism spectrum disorder.
Autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder, which is essentially defined as a neurological disorder affecting social communication, feeding, and normal cognitive development, and with an onset or early course with symptoms observable in the first three years of life. Gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms in ASD are common; one study found that ASD is more common in patients with GI symptoms compared to healthy children (33%