Abstract
By means of constant effort and the correlation of experimental and clinical observations, neurologists have given us an amazingly precise topography of the brain. In recent years, with the aid of x-rays, the gastro-intestinal tract is the subject of a similar survey. Today only the small intestine can truly be called the "silent area" of the alimentary tract. In presenting the following cases, I am making an attempt to encroach on this uncharted sea. The duodenal-jejunal junction has been relatively little studied. In a vast majority of cases it is hidden by the barium-laden stomach, and its anatomic position renders it relatively inaccessible to examination. Chomel,1in 1710, first described diverticulum of the duodenal-jejunal junction anatomically. In 1778 Morgagni1and in 1815 Fleischmann1added additional references to the anatomic data. In 1896 Hauseman2reported the observation at autopsy of a single diverticulum of the upper jejunum