Umbilical pyloromyotomy: comparison of vertical linea alba and transverse muscle cutting incisions

Journal of Pediatric Surgery

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 525-527

  Mullassery, Dhanya ^a   Shariff, Raheel ^a   Craigie, Ross J ^a   Losty, Paul D ^a   Kenny, Simon E ^a   Baillie, Colin T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis; Operation; Pyloromyotomy; Supraumbilical incision

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTINGENCY TABLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTESTINE PERFORATION; MORBIDITY; PERITONEAL CAVITY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYLOROMYOTOMY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN INCISION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; UMBILICAL MALFORMATION; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND INFECTION;

ABDOMINAL WALL; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PYLORIC STENOSIS, HYPERTROPHIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33847263875     PISSN: 00223468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2006.10.046     Document Type: Article

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