Open AccessLaparoscopic pyloromyotomy for congenital hypertrophic pyloric stenosis: Our experience with twenty cases
Author(s) -
Jaishri Ramji,
Rakesh Joshi
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
african journal of paediatric surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.163
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 0189-6725
pISSN - 0974-5998
DOI - 10.4103/ajps.ajps_119_20
Subject(s) - medicine , pyloromyotomy , myotomy , pyloric stenosis , surgery , hypertrophic pyloric stenosis , forceps , pylorus , stenosis , general surgery , achalasia , stomach , radiology , esophagus
Laparoscopic pyloromyotomy for hypertrophic pyloric stenosis has become quite popular over the past decade. There have been many modifications in the technique initially described by Alain et al. in 1991. We describe our experience of the laparoscopic procedure performed in twenty cases.