Delayed presentation of hypertrophic pyloric stenosis: a rare case.
Hypertrophic pyloric stenosis (HPS) is the most common cause of gastric outlet obstruction in infants, with an incidence of 1.5 to 3 per 1000 live births, and classically presents at 3 to 4 weeks of age. Delayed presentation of HPS is an extremely rare occurrence after early infancy. With the exclusion of congenital HPS, gastric outlet obstruction in childhood is a rare condition (1:100,000). We report a case of delayed presentation of HPS in a 4 1/2-year-old child in whom the pylorus was hypertrophied and appeared like an "olive," and for which pyloromyotomy was curative.
Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Sir Gangaram Hospital Marg, Rajinder Nagar, New Delhi 110060, India. dr.santosh25@gmail.com
Santosh
S
Mahalik
Alpana
A
Prasad
Aparna
A
Sinha
Rajeev
R
Kulshrestha
D000367:Age Factors; D017668:Age of Onset; D001466:Barium Sulfate; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004733:Enema / Q000379:methods; D017219:Gastric Outlet Obstruction / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007194:India / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D046248:Pyloric Stenosis, Hypertrophic / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000601:surgery*; D011708:Pylorus / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D016896:Treatment Outcome
D001466:Barium Sulfate