Circumumbilical incision for pyloromyotomy.
Forty infants with infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis had a Ramstedt pyloromyotomy through a circumumbilical incision. Delivery of the pylorus was relatively easy. Mild wound infection occurred in three infants and a further child developed a purulent discharge. There was one instance of abdominal wall dehiscence and all the resultant scars were hardly visible, thus achieving an apparently unscarred abdomen.
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D002921:Cicatrix; D006801:Humans; D006984:Hypertrophy / Q000601:surgery; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008722:Methods; D011707:Pyloric Stenosis / Q000601:surgery*; D013530:Surgical Wound Infection