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A Review

DAVID G. RIMER, MD

Arch Intern Med. 1966;117(2):287-299.

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The stomach is an organ full of sympathy for other sufferers. Hardly any of the viscera connected with the intestine, or the bowel itself, can be affected without the stomach playing its part in the disturbance also. This it does by pouring out an excess of secretion, and by tumultuous and irregular activities. It speaks so loudly that its voice only is heard.

Sir B. G. A. Moynihan, 1921¹

PYLORIC OBSTRUCTION and gastric retention are often confused, but they are by no means synonymous. Although mechanical obstruction, obviously, produces gastric retention, the latter may occur without any mechanical obstruction whatsoever. When it is mistakenly assumed that gastric retention necessarily means gastric obstruction, muddy thinking and misguided therapy result. The purpose of this paper is to describe the types of gastric retention, the clinical situations in which they may occur, and by a classification of these conditions to make . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
LOS ANGELES

From the departments of medicine, Wadsworth Veteran's Administration Hospital and the UCLA Center for the Health Sciences, Los Angeles.

Footnotes
Received for publication July 24, 1965; accepted Oct 22.

Reprint requests to Department of Medicine, UCLA Medical School, Los Angeles, Calif 90024 (Dr. Rimer).

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