Inefficient operations for gastric ulcer

Gastric ulcer.

are present: hydrochloric acid, and progressive erosion of an area of mucosa by the digestive action of the gastric juices. Our understanding of this process makes a fascinating story, linked with the names of two famous patients, Alexis and Tom. Two hundred years ago five processes were said to occur in the stomach during the digestion of a meal. These were concoction, putrefaction, trituratio...

Anaesthesia for Gastric Operations.

Gastric Freezing for Duodenal Ulcer.

A cuRE without recourse to surgery is the aim of all concerned with the treatment of duodenal ulcer. A new step in this direction was the introduction of gastric freezing by Wangensteen and his group in I962 (Wangensteen, Peter, Nicoloff, Walder, Sosin and Bernstein, i962b; Peter, Bernstein, Sosin, Madsen, Walder and Wangensteen, I962). This relatively simple and apparently innocuous procedure ...

Physiotherapy of gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcer

The review presents 69 references of current literature on the problem of gastroduodenal ulcer physiotherapy which has a good potential of impact on gastroduodenal motility, lipid peroxidation, microcirculation, physiological and reparative regeneration of epithelial and glandular cells. The choice of a physiotherapeutic method depends on the disease stage and to a less extent on location of th...

Unusual bleeding gastric ulcer.

In March 2003, a 72-year-old man presented with a history of vomiting coffee grounds, recent weight loss but no abdominal discomfort. Physical examination did not reveal an abdominal mass. An upper endoscopy found a gastric ulcer with active bleeding (Fig 1). A biopsy was taken and pathological examination demonstrated a malignant stromal tumour (Fig 2). A computed tomographic (CT) scan was the...