Peptic ulceration of the oesophagus following corrosive burns.

Instrumental perforation of the oesophagus and perforated duodenal ulcer.

Instrumental perforation of the oesophagus is a serious and, unfortunately, not a very rare accident. The occurrence in addition of perforation of a duodenal ulcer constitutes a situation which is rare, difficult to diagnose, and fraught with great danger to the patient. Simultaneous perforation of multiple peptic ulcers has been described in several reports since that of Finney (1900). As pept...

Peptic ulcer of the oesophagus.

The patient with peptic ulceration of the lower oesophagus has for a long time suffered his ulcer in a sort of " no-man's-land " to which the abdominal surgeon could not reach and to which the physician had no access. The radiologist passed it by as quickly as the force of swallowing would take him. The endoscopist saw it as through a glass darkly on the distant boundary of his territory, but w...

Corrosive burns of the oesophagus and their treatment.

Acute Peptic Ulceration and Cerebral Fat Embolism after Fracture

The relationship between acute intracerebral lesions and oesophago-gastro-duodenal ulceration has long been recognised, first by Rokitansky (1849), later by Pomorski (1891) and L#{233}pine(1895), and in more recent years by Opper and Zimmerman (1938), Strassmann (1947), Globus and Ralston (1951), Schlumberger (1951) and Dalgaard (1960). Strassmann found fifty-six instances of peptic ulceration ...

Left ventriculo-colic fistula--a late complication of colonic interposition for the oesophagus.

An 18 year old man developed recurrent haematemesis 12 years after colonic interposition for corrosive injury to the oesophagus. A colonic ulcer close to the cologastric anastomosis appeared to have fistulated into the cavity of the left ventricle. This so far unreported complication needs to be considered when patients who have had coloesophageal substitution present with gastrointestinal blee...