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JEAN VERBRUGGE, M.D.

Arch Surg. 1925;11(5):790-808.

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In this study, there were 216 cases of gastrocolic and jejunocolic fistulas. Two hundred and two cases were compiled from the literature; twenty-one were observed at the Mayo Clinic, seven of which were reported by C. H. Mayo and Rankin,¹ in 1921; therefore, only fourteen of the cases are new. In ninety-five cases, the condition was the result of a jejunal ulcer which developed following posterior gastroenterostomy, and in 121, it was the result of primary abdominal organic lesions.

The seventy cases reported previous to 1903 originated from cancer of the stomach or of the colon. Haller² reported the first case, in 1755, and Murchison³ the first group, which included thirty-three cases, in 1857. Bec⁴ reported sixty-three cases, in 1897, and Koch⁵ seventy cases, in 1903.

Four years after the first description of a jejunal ulcer, published by Braun,⁶ in 1899, Czerny⁷ reported . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Fellow in the Commission for the Relief of Belgium ROCHESTER, MINN.

From the Mayo Foundation. Work done in the service of Dr. E. S. Judd.

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