Congenital hypertrophic stenosis of the pylorus / by Edmund Cautley.

  • Cautley, Edmund, 1864-1944.
Date:
[1899]
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Credit: Congenital hypertrophic stenosis of the pylorus / by Edmund Cautley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    3 COi\GENITAL HYPERTROPHIC STENOSIS OP the pylorus BT EDMUND CAUTLEY, M.D.Cantab., &c. PHYSICIAN TO THE BELGBAVE HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN; ASSISTANT PHYSICIAN TO THE METROPOLITAN HOSPITAL Received January 24th—Read November 8ili, 1898 The condition illustrated by the cases described in this ] paper is one in which the pylorus of the infant is found post mortem to be represented by a well-defined^ cylin- drical thick-walled tube, with its lumen exceedingly small ' or completely occluded. There are other malformations of the pylorus which I may cause obstruction during infancy or in later life. riius there may be complete atresia, as in the cases I recorded by Neale (1) and Lessliaft (2) ; or there may 1 be a simple narrowing of the orifice, which may or I may not be surrounded by a ring-like thickening. 1 HenscheTs (3) cases, referred to below, and those re- « corded by Finkelstein (4) from Heubner’s clinic appear ♦ to be instances of simple stricture. Other causes of ' obstruction, such as polypi of the mucous membrane, t recorded by Goldenliorn and Kolatchewski (5), and car- t cinoma of the pylorus (0) in a child aged five weeks, may