What happens to the pylorus after pyloromyotomy?
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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