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A Follow-Up Study of Three Hundred Fifty-Three Patients

NEWLIN HASTINGS, M.D.; JAMES A. HALSTED, M.D.; EDWARD R. WOODWARD, M.D.; MARVIN GASSTER, M.D.; ELVA A. HISCOCK, B.S.

AMA Arch Surg. 1958;76(1):74-80.

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Benign peptic ulcer is a disease which afflicts over one-half million people and causes about 10,000 deaths each year in the United States.^1,2 It is frequently refractory to medical management and often is incompletely alleviated by surgical therapy. The lack of satisfaction in operative measures is partly reflected in the variety of procedures employed. Since its introduction by Péan,³ Rydygier,⁴ and Billroth⁵ (1879-1881), distal partial gastrectomy has been developed into the operation most commonly used today.^6-10 Various types of pyloroplasty and gastrojejunostomy were employed in . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Los Angeles

From the Wadsworth General Medical and Surgical Hospital, Veterans' Administration Center, and the Departments of Surgery and Medicine, University of California Medical Center, Los Angeles.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication March 28, 1957.

This work was aided in part by U. S. Public Health Service Grant No. RG-4195.

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