Open AccessRamstedt's Operation in District Hospitals — Is it Safe?
Author(s) -
P. J. McDonald
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
journal of the royal society of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.38
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1758-1095
pISSN - 0141-0768
DOI - 10.1177/014107688607900106
Subject(s) - medicine , pyloromyotomy , surgery , general surgery , stenosis , hypertrophic pyloric stenosis , general hospital , pediatrics , pylorus , stomach
Over a 10-year period, 47 infants with congenital hypertrophic stenosis underwent Ramstedt's pyloromyotomy in a district general hospital. The operations were carried out by 10 surgeons-6 consultants and 4 registrars. There were 3 major wound infections and 3 incisional hernias. One infant was referred to a specialist centre for reoperation.
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