ABSTRACT
The report is a retrospective study of the journals of 123 patients operated from 1967-89. In all patients, the Fredet-Ramstedt pyloromyotomy was used. The incidence of pyloric stenosis is stable in Tromsø, 1.5 +/- 1 pr. 1,000 newborn. The incidence among boys and girls is 4:1. Serious complications after surgical treatment are infrequent; with no mortality and 4% reoperations. The duration of symptoms significantly increased the incidence of peroperative pyloric perforations, with a more tedious postoperative course. Early diagnosis and surgical treatment are therefore recommended.
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Pyloric Stenosis/epidemiology , Female , Humans , Hypertrophy , Infant , Infant, Newborn , Male , Norway , Pyloric Stenosis/surgery , Retrospective StudiesABSTRACT
Excisional biopsy with peroperative frozen section and later paraffin section examination was performed in 107 consecutive cases of solitary thyroid nodules. Frozen section gave a correct diagnosis in 99 cases (92%). A false benign diagnosis was made in 6 cases, one was inconclusive and one was false malignant (Hürthle cell tumor). Technetium scintigraphy was of no definite diagnostic value. Malignancy was found in 25 cases (23%) in which the whole gland was removed. Multicentric bilateral lobe involvement was encountered in 7 patients. Lack of reliable preoperative diagnostic methods makes liberal excisional biopsy of all solitary thyroid nodules advisable.
