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Archives of Disease in Childhood 1988;63:1339-1341; doi:10.1136/adc.63.11.1339
Copyright © 1988 BMJ Publishing Group Ltd & Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.

What happens to the pylorus after pyloromyotomy?

N M Okorie, J A Dickson, R A Carver, G M Steiner

Sub-department of Paediatric Surgery, Children's Hospital, Sheffield.

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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