Peptic ulcer: surgical treatment.

The surgical treatment of peptic ulcer.

Surgical treatment of peptic ulcer disease: current indications and techniques

The acute complications of peptic ulcer and their surgical treatment.

It will be seen that three of the cases were under forty and two under forty-five. Except for one case, the length of history was measured in years. Seven of the eight ulcer-cancers occurred in the pyloric antrum, thus confirming that it is the chronic ulcer in this situation which is particularly liable to undergo malignant change. Five of the patients are dead, one was dying when last seen an...

The Treatment of Peptic Ulcer

Treatment of Peptic Ulcer Disease

For more than a century, peptic ulcer disease has been a major cause of morbidity and mortality. In the early part of the 20th century, when stress and diet were judged to be important pathogenetic factors for peptic ulceration, patients with peptic ulcers were treated with hospitalization, bed rest, and the prescription of “bland” diets. By the 1950s, investigators and clinicians had focused t...