Perforating Ulcer of the Duodenum

Notes from Memory of a Case of Perforating Ulcer of Duodenum

Musst. Nagessuri, an inmate of the Arrah Jail, was admitted into the Jail Hospital about the 13th of Jane last for an attack of acute dysentery. Her health for some time previous to this had been in an indifferent condition and she was kept under observation and exempted from all the penal works of the jail. Soon after her admission into the Jail Hospital a tympanitic condition of her abdomen w...

Ulcer of the Stomach and Duodenum

question of the aetiology of gastric ulcer is fully discussed. The authors consider that acute primary ulcer often commences as a hemorrhage, and that chronic ulcer, although it may be a sequel of an acute ulcer, is probably frequently due to impaired nutrition of the mucous membrane of the stomach consequent upon arterial degeneration. It has always seemed to us that a hemorrhage is the most l...

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...