Peptic Ulcer

Abstract

IT is not uncommon to encounter a middle-aged patient who for a number of years has suffered from ulcer and who, weary of his recurrent trials, seeks relief in surgery. Physicians are now less reluctant to advise surgical treatment of refractive ulcers than they were before the introduction of antibiotics, and it is generally agreed that modern surgical treatment is more effective and less hazardous. Yet many are unaware of the progress in surgical treatment in the past two decades, and it seems appropriate to restate and re-evaluate results so that therapy can be advised in the light of contemporary . . .