Pylorospasm

    A child 20 days of life with a small set of weight, complaining of like fountain vomiting and suspicion of pyloric stenosis from the surgeon.

    On ultrasound the baby before feeding(fasting) the pyloric canal is closed, the thickness of the muscular wall of 2 mm, the canal length of 16 mm, a diameter of 8 mm (pylorospasm?).

    Child was fed, pyloric canal getting shorter, after about 30 seconds appears a thin strip of the lumen (to the question of the diagnostic value of the criterion of a narrow canal on the x-ray) and then after about 1 minute canal is completely opened.

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