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CLASSIFICATION IN REGARD TO THE FORM OF THE EPIGASTRIOGRAM

NOBUTATSU FUKUI, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1930;46(2):333-341.

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In a former report, I gave only an outline¹ of my investigation on the epigastric pulsation and its clinical application in the diagnosis of arrhythmia cordis.² Later I explained in detail³ some new problems of epigastric pulsation, in which the epigastric pulsation was investigated as a physical phenomenon from a statistical point of view as well as in relation to the orthodiagram of the heart. In this paper, I shall give the results of the latter report³ first and then a new classification of the forms of epigastriograms.

STATISTICAL AND ORTHODIAGRAPHIC STUDIES

For the statistical research, the epigastric pulsation is classified into five types, A, B, C, D and E, as shown in the accompanying table.

Examination of 2,000 healthy men. from 12 to 60 years old, showed that all types of pulsation in those under 20 years of age remain almost constant. Relative nonpulsation (D) occurred in 60 per cent; . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
TOKIO, JAPAN

From the Kaigun Medical College, Tsukiji, Tokyo.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication, Dec. 11, 1929.

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