Subtotal Gastrectomy for Bleeding Duodenal Ulcer in Childhood

Abstract

PEDIATRICIANS, as well as interested surgeons, radiologists and, more recently, child psychiatrists, periodically acknowledge that peptic ulcer occurs more often in childhood than is generally appreciated and that it should be included in the differential diagnosis of vague abdominal pain and gastrointestinal symptoms in infants and children. No attempt will be made to review the fairly sizable literature that has accumulated during the past two or three decades. Those interested in so doing will find the major contributions and many of the collected case reports summarized in the review articles by Tashiro and Kobayashi¹ in 1935, Bird, Limper and Mayer . . .