Food for thought : palatable eponyms from Pediatrics [PDF]
Food-related medical terms are frequently used in the field of pediatrics for the definition, recognition and diagnosis of disease. Almost 40 food-related medical eponyms used in Pediatrics have been ‘cherry picked’ and described by the authors.
Kipersztok, Lisa, Masukume, Gwinyai
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Clinical Findings Versus Imaging Studies in the Diagnosis of Infantile Hypertrophic Pyloric Stenosis [PDF]
Background: Infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis is the commonest surgical cause of vomiting in early infancy and can be diagnosed clinically or by imaging studies. OBJECTIVES: To assess the accuracy of clinical examination as compared with ultrasound
Hameed, Sirar Qahtan +2 more
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Infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis: a single institution’s experience [PDF]
Background/purpose Infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis (IHPS) is said to be relatively common in the western world, but its incidence in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is unknown.
Ahmed, AA +10 more
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Gastric outlet obstruction in an 11‐year‐old girl: A case report
Abstract Pyloric stenosis commonly affects infants and rarely causes gastric outlet obstruction in adolescents and older children. We present the case of an 11‐year‐old girl with a 2‐month history of recurrent postprandial vomiting and weight loss. On physical examination, the patient presented with abdominal distension.
Ana Sofia Figueiredo +7 more
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Efficacy of Medical Treatment for Infantile Hypertrophic Pyloric Stenosis: A Meta-analysis
Infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis (IHPS) is a common disease in infancy. Pyloromyotomy is universally considered the treatment for IHPS; however, oral or intravenous atropine has been reappraised for the treatment of IHPS in the past 20 years.
Shu-Fen Wu +6 more
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A double-masked placebo-controlled trial of azithromycin to prevent child mortality in Burkina Faso, West Africa: Community Health with Azithromycin Trial (CHAT) study protocol. [PDF]
BACKGROUND:Biannual, mass azithromycin distribution has previously been shown to reduce all-cause child mortality in sub-Saharan Africa. Subgroup analysis suggested that the strongest effects were in the youngest children, leading to the hypothesis that ...
Bagagnan, Cheik +14 more
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Early pyloric stenosis: a case control study [PDF]
Pyloric stenosis (PS) is rare in the first 2 weeks of life, often leading to delays in diagnosis and treatment. We conducted a case control study to delineate the characteristics of patients with early PS (EPS). In addition, we tested the hypothesis that
A-L Zhang +26 more
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Prenatal and infantile diagnosis of craniosynostosis in individuals with RASopathies
Abstract Fetuses with RASopathies can have a wide variety of anomalies including increased nuchal translucency, hydrops fetalis, and structural anomalies (typically cardiac and renal). There are few reports that describe prenatal‐onset craniosynostosis in association with a RASopathy diagnosis.
Carolyn R. Serbinski +7 more
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Infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis is the most common surgical cause of vomiting in infants. The pyloric muscle is hypertrophied and the pyloric channel becomes narrow and elongated, causing gastric outlet obstruction.
Işık Üstüner +4 more
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بررسی اثر نيتريک اکسايد روی عضله صاف حلقوی پيلور جنين موش صحرايی [PDF]
نيتريک اکسايد( NO ) مولکول کوچک تقريباً ناپايدار و راديکال آزاد چربی دوستی است که توسط سلولهای متفاوت پستانداران ساخته میشود و در بدن آنها دارای اعمال متفاوتی از جمله واسطه عصبی و اثر سيتوتوکسيک میباشد.
ثقهالاسلام, معصومه +3 more
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