The Incidence of Congenital Pyloric Stenosis

The Incidence of Congenital Pyloric Stenosis.

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...

On the Incidence of Congenital Hypertrophic Pyloric Stenosis

The clinical picture presented by hypertrophic pyloric stenosis in the child is so distinctive that it seems improbable that such a condition, had it been as common as it is now, should have failed to attract attention before Hirschsprung's' presentation of two cases in 1888. There has been, therefore, on the one hand, a tendency, initiated by Osler2 in 1903 with his reprint of the case reporte...

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...

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...