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. 1988 Nov;63(11):1339–1341. doi: 10.1136/adc.63.11.1339

What happens to the pylorus after pyloromyotomy?

N M Okorie 1, J A Dickson 1, R A Carver 1, G M Steiner 1
PMCID: PMC1779142  PMID: 3060023

Abstract

The rate of return to normal of the pylorus muscle in infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis was measured by ultrasound, using a simple pyloric volume calculation and a pyloric muscle index. The muscle hypertrophy took from two to 12 weeks to resolve.

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