THE RETENTION OF VEGETABLE MATERIAL IN THE STOMACH
- 7 August 1926
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. 87 (6) , 397-399
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1926.02680060021007
Abstract
The retention of vegetable material in the stomach, except in cases of complete obstruction of the pylorus, is rare. Perhaps the earliest case is the one reported by Quain1(for Buckwill) in 1854. The largest series is one of eight cases reported in 1923, by W. E. Hart.2Single cases have been reported by Schreiber,3Peple,4Outten,5King,6Tschassownikoff,7Upson,8Adams9and others. The cases reported have all been compact masses of vegetable matter and removed as such. Six of Hart's cases were composed largely of persimmon, Adams' case entirely of pumpkin, and the others of various vegetable fibers. Two of Hart's cases were complicated by gastric ulcers. In the other cases no organic lesions were demonstrable. In the case here presented there was no history of the eating of persimmons; the retained matter was composed of celery fibers, prune andKeywords
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