Diseases of the Stomach and Duodenum

Diseases of the stomach and duodenum.

The topics of stomach and duodenum have been described in this report. The discovery of Helicobacter pylori was the revolutionary event in the pathogenesis, diagnosis as well as treatment of gastrointestinal diseases. The eradication of the bacteria prevented the recurrence of peptic ulcer, namely gastric and duodenal ulcer. It is reported that this bacteria may be the main cause of gastric can...

Nutritional Disturbances Associated with Diseases of the Stomach and Duodenum*

0 T view surgica1 Iesions of the stomach and duodenum from the standpoint of etioIogy, symptoms and signs, pathoIogy, and operative correction is to miss much. AItered physioIogy and biochemistry are aIso important and the surgeon of today has broadened his fieId to understand and correct the deficiencies resuIting from nutritional disturbances. These deficiencies may be associated with the vit...

The stomach and duodenum.

Esophagus, Stomach, and Duodenum

Patients with ingestion of foreign objects and esophageal food boluses commonly are seen in the emergency department (ED). Although most objects pass spontaneously, approximately 10 to 20% require a nonoperative intervention, and fewer than 1% require surgical removal. Death as a result of foreign body ingestion or impaction is rare. Patients with esophageal foreign bodies can be classified int...

Stomach and Duodenum GROSS ANATOMY OF THE STOMACH AND DUODENUM Arteries

The stomach has an arterial supply on both the lesser and greater curves . On the lesser curve, the left gastric artery, a branch of the coeliac axis, forms an anastomotic arcade with the right gastric artery, which arises from the common hepatic artery. The gastroduodenal artery, which is also a branch of the hepatic artery, passes behind the first part of the duodenum. Here it divides into th...