Common pediatric surgery problems.pdf
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Pyloric Stenosis<br />
1 in 600 births, male: female ratio 4:1, 3-12<br />
weeks<br />
Gastric outlet obstruction due to hypertrophy of<br />
pyloric muscle<br />
Progressive, projectile non-bilious vomiting<br />
Hypochloremic, hypokalemic metabolic alkalosis<br />
renal compensation for hypovolvemia<br />
Ultrasound is diagnostic procedure of choice<br />
thickness > 5 mm, channel length > 15 mm<br />
Repair via Fredet-Ramstedt pyloromyotomy