TWENTY-SIX CASES OF HYPERTROPHIC STENOSIS OF THE PYLORUS IN PRIVATE PRACTICE

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During the past four years twenty-six of my private patients with pyloric stenosis have been operated on by the Rammstedt method. Twenty-four were operated on by Downes at the Babies' Hospital, one by Downes at St. Luke's and one by Jennings at the Brooklyn Hospital. In the cases reported, seventeen were boys and nine were girls. The sex in my series of cases agrees with the observation of Still, who reported that among forty-two cases, thirty-five were males. Ibrahim found boys affected four times as often as girls. Thirteen patients represented the first pregnancy, six the second, five the third, one the fourth and one the fifth. In one, a second pregnancy, the first-born also had pyloric stenosis and died after gastro-enterostomy. All were full-term infants. The ages at the time of operation ranged from 3 to 16 weeks. Fourteen were 6 weeks old or less, four were under 4

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