Webster Riggs
Abstract
A questionaire regarding the incidence of hiatal hernia in infacts and children was sent to the 50 largest departments of pediatric radiology in the United States and Canada. The 36 returned revealed that the larger departments see an average of 3.2 hiatal hernias per year or about 0.62 per cent of their upper gastrointestinal studies.
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A questionaire regarding the incidence of hiatal hernia in infacts and children was sent to the 50 largest departments of pediatric radiology in the United States and Canada. The 36 returned revealed that the larger departments see an average of 3.2 hiatal hernias per year or about 0.62 per cent of their upper gastrointestinal studies.
Key concepts: Medicine, Hiatal hernia, Incidence (geometry), Hernia, General surgery, Pediatrics, Internal medicine, Optics