Prognosis of the Medically Treated Small Gastric Ulcer

Abstract

AT the Mayo Clinic, partial gastrectomy is the treatment of choice in most cases of apparently benign gastric ulcer. This is so because 10 per cent of patients whose ulcers prove cancerous are thereby given the best chances of "cure," the morbidity due to benign ulcer is terminated promptly, the results of surgical treatment of the benign ulcer are excellent, and the risk of surgical treatment is small (mortality of 1 to 2 per cent^{1 , 2}).In the remaining cases medical management is instituted, in some with the approval of the physician, in some at the insistence of the patient, . . .