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A Review of the Literature and the Report of Two Cases

KJELL H. CHRISTIANSEN, M.D.; ALAN GRANTHAM, M.D.

AMA Arch Surg. 1962;85(2):207-214.

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Since the occurrence of idiopathic hypertrophic pyloric stenosis in the adult is rare, no surgeon has had vast experience in the management of patients with this condition. The gross pathologic anatomy of this lesion is apparently identical with that of the common, more easily diagnosed infantile form of hypertrophic pyloric stenosis, and it is possible that these 2 clinical entities are related.

Cruvielhier (cited by Mack²⁰) (1835) was the first to describe the pathologic anatomy of hypertrophic pyloric stenosis in an adult. His case occurred in a 72-year-old woman with a long history of vomiting. Maier²¹ in 1885 first described it as a clinical entity based on pathologic findings at necropsy. The first surgical cure in an adult was reported by Mayo-Robson²² in 1904, who utilized a gastroenterostomy.

Two patients with this condition were recently encountered at the Veterans Administration Hospital, Oteen, N.C. These 2 cases directed . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
BRYN MAWR, PA.; ABINGDON, VA.

Formerly, Senior Resident in Surgery (Dr. Christiansen), and formerly, Chief, General Surgical Section (Dr. Grantham), Veterans Administration Hospital, Oteen.; From the Veterans Administration Hospital, Oteen, N.C.

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Received for publication Sept. 19, 1961.

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