Transactions of the Southern Surgical and Gynecological Association (1920) (14597133917)
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Identifier: transactionsofso3319sout (find matches)
Title: Transactions of the Southern Surgical and Gynecological Association
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Southern Surgical and Gynecological Association (U.S.)
Subjects: Surgery Gynecology Surgery Genital Diseases, Female
Publisher: (S.l.) : The Association
Contributing Library: Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the National Endowment for the Humanities
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Fig. 1—Destruction by cautery (Balfour method) of ulcer on the lessercurvature of the stomach.
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CHARLES H. MAYO 469 re-established by catgut suture. In extensive areas ofulceration and partial closure the gastroenterostomy isundone and the bowel and the stomach closed; in a fewcases it has been found advisable to enlarge the pyloricoutlet by some of the plastic methods. Gastric ulcers should receive special consideration becauseof the seriousness of perforation, the chronic symptoms, thefrequent deformity and fixation of the stomach, the notinfrequent development of carcinoma, and because theresults following gastro-enterostomy for gastric ulcer arecertainly not so good as those following gastro-enterostomyfor duodenal ulcer. Graham in an investigation of 438cases of duodenal ulcer found that 70 per cent, of the patientswho survived operation considered themselves well follow-ing gastro-enterostomy, 27 per cent, were improved and 3per cent, unimproved. The future condition and length of life of patients withpeptic ulcer are problems recognized by insurance companiesin considerin