CT Case 069
A 70-year-old man presents with 3 days of abdominal pain and vomiting. He has had 15 vomits in the 24 hours prior to presentation
Tag pyloric stenosis
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Pyloric Stenosis
Pyloric Stenosis is a medial emergency that requires urgent fluid resuscitation and resolution of biochemical abnormalities. Definitive surgical treatment can then be undertaken to restore enteral nutrition.
Ramstedt Operation
The history of pyloric stenosis and the Ramstedt Operation (1912) for pyloromyotomy - surgical correction of hypertrophic pyloric stenosis, involving longitudinal splitting of the hypertrophic pylorus and leaving the defect open.
Harald Hirschsprung
Harald Hirschsprung (1830 – 1916) was a Danish pediatrician. Eponym - Hirschsprung disease, congenital idiopathic aganglionosis with colonic dilatation
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