Prognosis of the Medically Treated Small Gastric Ulcer
- 19 January 1961
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 264 (3) , 119-123
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm196101192640304
Abstract
AT the Mayo Clinic, partial gastrectomy is the treatment of choice in most cases of apparently benign gastric ulcer. This is so because 10 per cent of patients whose ulcers prove cancerous are thereby given the best chances of "cure," the morbidity due to benign ulcer is terminated promptly, the results of surgical treatment of the benign ulcer are excellent, and the risk of surgical treatment is small (mortality of 1 to 2 per cent1 , 2).In the remaining cases medical management is instituted, in some with the approval of the physician, in some at the insistence of the patient, . . .Keywords
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- MEDICALLY TREATED SMALL GASTRIC ULCERJAMA, 1952