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Abstract
Narrowing of the pyloric canal due to HYPERTROPHY of the surrounding circular muscle. It is usually seen in infants or young children.
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- Pyloric Stenosis, Hypertrophic
- Stenosis, Hypertrophic Pyloric
- IHPS1 Infantile Hypertrophic Pyloric Stenosis 1
- Idiopathic Hypertrophic Pyloric Stenosis
- Infantile Hypertrophic Pyloric Stenosis
- Primary Hypertrophic Pyloric Stenosis
- Pyloric Stenosis, Infantile
- Pyloric Stenosis, Infantile Hypertrophic
- Pyloric Stenosis, Infantile Hypertrophic 1
- Infantile Pyloric Stenoses
- Infantile Pyloric Stenosis
- Stenosis, Infantile Pyloric
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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2005
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Previous Indexing
- Pyloric Stenosis (1965-2004)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Hypertrophic Pyloric Stenosis. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D046248. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D046248
- Hypertrophic Pyloric Stenosis. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18554354