HEREDITARY PERFORATING ULCER OF THE FOOT.

A Case of Perforating Enteric Ulcer of the Ileum

Abdominal Section in Perforating-Ulcer of the Stomach. A Suggestion

A case of perforating-ulcer of the stomach, which terminated fatally in sixteen hours from the beginning of the symptoms, suggested to me the possibility of successfully attempting some surgical interference in similar cases.

Gastric tube ulcer perforating the pericardium after subtotal esophagectomy.

Subtotal esophagectomy with retrosternal transposition of the gastric tube to the neck was performed in a 62-year-old patient with squamous cell carcinoma of the proximal third of the esophagus. He developed a salivatory fistula in the early postoperative period that healed spontaneously. Five months later, the patient developed partial stenosis of the esophagogastric anastomosis which required...

Diabetic Foot Ulcer

It is estimated that approximately 15% of diabetic people world-wide will at some stage develop diabetic foot ulceration. The prevalence of active foot ulceration varies from approx‐ imately 1% in certain European and North American studies to more than 11% in reports from some African countries (table 1). Although there have been many developments in recent years which encourage optimism for f...

Scottish foot ulcer risk score predicts foot ulcer healing in a regional specialist foot clinic.

OBJECTIVE To determine whether patients developing ulcers had previously been identified as being at high risk of ulceration using the Scottish Care Information-Diabetes Collaboration (SCI-DC) ulcer risk score and whether the risk score predicts ulcer healing. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS All patients attending the diabetes foot clinic with an ulcer had been assessed for foot ulcer risk using ...