3. What percentage of cases of congenital hypertrophic pyloric stenosis occur in the first born?
Correct answer: Fifty per cent of cases occur in the first born and the condition often occurs in siblings.
2. Does congenital hypertrophic pyloric stenosis run in families?
Correct answer: It is a familial condition.
1. What is the aetiology of congenital hypertrophic pyloric stenosis?
Correct answer: The aetiology of the pyloric muscle ‘tumour’ in pyloric obstruction in infants is unknown. It may result from an abnormality of the ganglion cells of the myenteric cells; failure of the sphincter to relax may then produce an…
