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Pyloric Stenosis

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The Danish pediatrician Harald Hirschsprung first described the key features of pyloric stenosis (PS) based on two infants who had died from it in 1888. This was followed by various rarely successful surgical attempts at bypassing or overcoming the gastric outlet obstruction culminating in Conrad Ramsted describing in 1912 two successful cases where only the pyloric musculature was divided.

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    Harold Hirschsprung (1830–1916) – Danish pediatrician.

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    Conrad von Ram(m)stedt (1867–1963) either spelling is correct – German military surgeon, later worked in Munster.

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    Santiago Ramon y Cajal (1852–1934) – Spanish pathologist and Nobel laureate.

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    Adrian Bianchi – Maltese pediatric surgeon working in Manchester, UK.

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  1. Pediatric Surgery Unit, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

    Giorgia Totonelli

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  1. Paediatric Surgery Department, London, SE5 9RS, United Kingdom

    Chandrasen K. Sinha

  2. Dept. Pediatric Surgery, Kings College Hospital, Denmark Hill, London, SE5 9RS, United Kingdom

    Mark Davenport

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Totonelli, G., Cozzi, D.A. (2010). Pyloric Stenosis. In: Sinha, C., Davenport, M. (eds) Handbook of Pediatric Surgery. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-132-3_12

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