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A 20‐Year Follow‐up of Children with a Partial Thoracic Stomach (Hiatal Hernia) *
Author(s) -
CARRE IVO,
ASTLEY ROY,
LANGMEADSMITH RHODA
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
journal of paediatrics and child health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.631
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1440-1754
pISSN - 1034-4810
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1754.1976.tb02343.x
Subject(s) - medicine , hiatal hernia , stomach , surgery , hernia , general surgery , gastroenterology , disease , reflux
Carre, I., Astley, R. and Langmead‐Smith, Rhoda (1976).Aust. paediat. J. , 12, 92–94. A 20‐year follow‐up of children with a partial thoracic stomach (hiatal hernia). A preliminary report is presented of a long‐term prospective study undertaken to ascertain the prognosis of children with a partial thoracic stomach (hiatal hernia) beyond childhood. This survey relates to 94 children who were originally studied by two of the authors (I.C. & R.A.) during 1950–1955. These patients had either received no specific treatment or had been managed conservatively by postural therapy. Although over 90% were free of symptoms, about one half still had a well defined intrathoracic gastric loculus on fluoroscopic examination.