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 (5)  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

RAYMOND C. DOBERNECK, MD; EUGENE F. BERNSTEIN, MD; ROBERT L. GOODALE, JR., MD; JOHN P. DELANEY, MD; OWEN H. WANGENSTEEN, MD

AMA Arch Surg. 1965;91(4):575-583.

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

RECENT REPORTS including those of double-blind studies concerning the efficacy of gastric freezing as treatment of patients with medically refractory duodenal ulcers are conflicting. The reports of Rose¹ and S. L. Wangensteen² and their respective colleagues suggest that freezing produces relief from ulcer pain in most of such patients while the report of Perry and associates³ indicates that freezing produces relief from ulcer pain in few of such patients. S. L. Wangensteen² states that gastric acid secretion is depressed for six months after freezing while the others^1,3 state that no change in acid secretion occurs thereafter.

The reports of descriptive (qualitative) microscopical changes after gastric freezing are also conflicting. The report of Allcock and co-authors⁴ suggests that the numbers of chief and parietal cells are temporarily decreased after freezing while the reports of Owens,⁵ Nabseth,⁶ and Gilat⁷ and their respective co-workers . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
MINNEAPOLIS

From the Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota Hospitals.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication April 3, 1965.

Reprint requests to Creighton University School of Medicine, Dept of Surgery, Omaha, Neb 68108 (Dr. Doberneck).

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