[Stenosing hypertrophic antromyopathy]

The authors describe a case of insufficiency of gastric evacuation, due to the a very rare injury of the antrum which they called:--"hypertrophic and stenosing antromiopathiae". By similarity with the pilor hypertrophy, but without altering the pilor which is intact, the hypertrophy involves especially the gastric antrum, the muscular tunic--mainly the circular fibres in the absence of any acute or chronic inflammatory process. In the interstice between the muscular fibres, there appear collagen fibres in spiral disposition, probably in a contraction. Due to the similitude of the clinical syndrome, the described disease could be ranged among the stenosant diseases of the pyloric pole of the stomach. Out of these, more frequently pointed out, although very rare too, seems to be the pilor hypertrophy at adults. Mention must be made that the two diseases are completely different, because in the "Hypertrophic and stenosing antromiopathiae", the pilor is macroscopic and at the same time normal from the histopathologic aspect point of view.