TRANSPYLORIC MUCOSAL PROLAPSE

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This article is only available in the PDF format. Download the PDF to view the article, as well as its associated figures and tables. Prolapse of gastric mucosa into the duodenum has been a controversial subject in recent years. Although some doubt has been cast on the clinical significance and importance of this abnormality by some authors, the majority of writers on the subject believe gastric mucosal prolapses may produce symptoms. It is not our purpose at this time to consider the subject comprehensively, but we consider it of interest to relate our experience in a single case diagnosed and cured by surgery. REPORT OF A CASE A woman, aged 39 years, entered Evangelical Deaconess Hospital Sept. 30, 1952, complaining of having had occasional attacks of "indigestion" for several years. On the day before admission she had experienced an attack of acute epigastric pain that radiated along the right costal margin and to the inter- scapular region. During previous attacks the epigastric pain was usually dull and accompanied by nausea and vomiting. Appetite had

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