Gastric Ulcer

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Abstract
GASTRIC ulcer has been recognized as a clinical entity for many years. However, it is so closely related to duodenal ulcer on the one hand and gastric cancer on the other that various authorities tend to emphasize either the benign or the malignant aspect to the exclusion of the other. Obviously, in the former case, gastric ulcer would become a minor subdivision of peptic ulcer, and the surgical treatment would consist of control of the complications. In the latter, gastric ulcers are regarded as actually malignant, or so similar to gastric cancer that all should be operated on and the . . .
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