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Original communication| Volume 69, ISSUE 1, P130-136, January 1971

Congenital pyloric atresia: A report of three cases and a review of the literature

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      Abstract

      Three cases of pyloric atresia are presented and placed in the context of 26 previous cases reported in the literature. Two of our patients were siblings; this familial incidence of the disease has been reported only once before. Two of our three patients survived. The third probably died of prematurity and multiple congenital anomalies.
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