ACQUIRED GASTRIC OUTLET OBSTRUCTION DURING INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD - A REPORT OF 5 UNUSUAL CASES

Infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis is a common, specific, and wel l-understood entity in the pediatric age group. Prepyloric webs and di aphragms are the other rare causes of gastric outlet obstruction follo wed by still rarer causes, eg, pyloric stenosis secondary to acid pept ic disease. The present report describes a newer, nonspecific, clinica l condition of pyloric obstruction in five patients of varying age who responded very well to Henieke-Mikulicz' pyloroplasty. The authors ha ve suggested some modifications in the classification of gastric outle t obstruction in children to include these patients. (C) 1997 by W.B. Saunders Company.