Corrosive (Acid) Gastritis

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THE American literature contains comparatively few reports of cases of corrosive gastritis, of either the acute or the chronic variety. Because few patients survive the initial insult for more than twenty-four hours, the concept of the management of such cases is somewhat nebulous. Some of the reports in the literature deal primarily with the late sequelae of corrosive poisoning. Very few patients have survived the initial insult long enough to be followed under medical supervision until the late sequelae of pyloric obstruction appeared. Some steps in the management of such cases have been referred to in a previous publication by . . .