title: Prepyloric diaphragm detected following foreign body ingestion.
abstract: Prepyloric diaphragms are unusual and are usually detected in adulthood. We report a five-year-old boy who presented with history of ingestion of a coin and was found to have a prepyloric diaphragms on laparotomy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Surgery, LTMG Hospital, Bombay.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Oak
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bhatnagar
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Kulkarni
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nanivadekar
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Karmarkar
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Sawant
mesh_terms: D002675:Child, Preschool; D005547:Foreign Bodies; D017219:Gastric Outlet Obstruction / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011706:Pyloric Antrum / Q000002:abnormalities*; D013270:Stomach