Incidence of congenital pyloric stenosis in Malta.

Incidence of congenital pyloric stenosis in Malta.

The first operation for congenital pyloric stenosis in Malta was carried out in 1949. Up to that time it was thought that this disease did not exist locally. However, an increasing number of cases have been diagnosed since then: presumably this is due to more accurate diagnosis and to the fact that doctors have become more aware of its existence. The purpose of this paper is to review the incid...

The Incidence of Congenital Pyloric Stenosis.

Incidence of congenital pyloric stenosis in birth series.

CONFEN~TAL hypertrophic pyloric stenosis has been linked with primogeniture in many reports since Still [l] first suggested that its incidence might be associated with birth rank. Principal contributors to this view are: Ford, Ross and Brown [2]; Cockayne and Penrose [3]; McKeown, MacMahon and Record [4, 51. Most recently this view has been advanced by Shim, Campbell and Wright [6]. These autho...

Congenital Hypertrophic Pyloric Stenosis: A Case Report

Background Hypertrophic pyloric stenosis (HPS) is a common surgical condition in infancy, and typically presents at 2-4 weeks of age. Case Presentation A full term male neonate in Zeinabieh hospital, Shiraz, Iran was presented with oral feeding intolerance from birth, bile-stained...

Congenital Hypertrophic Pyloric Stenosis

Szilagyi and McGraw in 1943 aptly pointed out that 'When a disease has ceased to be a therapeutic problem, scientific interest in it is likely to wane. Not infrequently successful measures of treatment are devised before the fundamental problems of a disease have been solved, and in such instances the consequent lack of interest will be reflected in the neglect of the related, less practical bu...