Question 321 · LEK · Congenital hypertrophic pyloric stenosis
Which of the following is true about pyloric hypertrophy (pylorostenosis)?
- A. it is typically diagnosed between the first and the second year of age.
- B. excessive jaundice is one of its typical symptoms.
- C. projectile vomiting with bile-stained content.
- D. starvation stools due to chronic malnutrition are a characteristic symptom.
- E. the treatment of choice is pyloromyotomy.
Hint
Recall the age of onset, whether the obstruction lies above or below the ampulla of Vater, and the standard operation.
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