This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citing articles on HighWire  • Citing articles on Web of Science (22)  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

P. A. DUHAMEL, MD; M. A. BLOCK, MD; W. S. HAUBRICH, MD

AMA Arch Surg. 1963;87(3):391-395.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

In a practice involving large numbers of unselected gastric ulcer patients, the problem of medical intractability and recurrence of benign peptic ulcers in the stomach has posed, for us, a greater difficulty than the initial differentiation from gastric cancer. Rigid adherence to a policy of thorough diagnostic study and, in appropriate cases, reliance on a strictly interpreted therapeutic trial have permitted an accuracy of differentiation approaching 99%. Nevertheless, in the satisfaction of being able to discern the benign from the malignant gastric ulcer, one can easily lose sight of the eventual gravity of benign ulcer disease. To confirm our suspicions of this gravity, we have reviewed the later courses of our patients with apparently benign gastric ulcer disease.

Patients Comprising the Study

At Henry Ford Hospital from Jan. 1, 1945, through Dec. 31, 1955, the diagnosis of benign gastric ulcer was initially recorded for 474 patients. It is emphasized that . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
DETROIT

From the Divisions of General Surgery and Gastroenterology, Henry Ford Hospital.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Dec. 18, 1962.

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?