Udezue N O
Department of Surgery, Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Kaduna, Nigeria.
East Afr Med J. 1993 Aug;70(8):491-5.
Twenty children, aged between six years and fourteen years were seen and treated for duodenal obstruction at the Department of Surgery, Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Kaduna, Nigeria, between 1st January 1990 and 31st December, 1990. Both extrinsic and intrinsic factors caused the duodenal obstruction. All the patients were surgically treated and all survived. The main presenting clinical features, diagnosis and treatment are discussed. Follow up on some of the patients has been erratic because of patients defaulting on clinic appointments. In spite of successful surgical treatment and relief of symptoms, growth retardation, as shown by height and weight measurements, persisted relatively in patients in whom it was present at the time of diagnosis and treatment.
1990年1月1日至1990年12月31日期间，在尼日利亚卡杜纳的阿哈穆杜·贝洛大学教学医院外科，共诊治了20名年龄在6岁至14岁之间的十二指肠梗阻患儿。十二指肠梗阻由外在因素和内在因素共同导致。所有患者均接受了手术治疗，且全部存活。本文讨论了主要的临床表现、诊断及治疗方法。由于部分患者未按时前来复诊，对其中一些患者的随访并不规律。尽管手术治疗成功且症状得到缓解，但经身高和体重测量显示，诊断和治疗时就已存在生长发育迟缓的患者，生长发育迟缓状况仍相对持续存在。
