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Review of the Literature and Report of Four New Cases

LESTER BAKER, M.D.; FRED A. GATTAS, M.D.

AMA Arch Intern Med. 1953;92(3):321-332.

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THE DICTUM that "all ulcers occurring on or closely adjacent to the greater curvature of the stomach are malignant until proved otherwise" has been accepted in the English literature almost unqualifiedly for the past two decades. Prior to the 1930's very few histologically proved benign greater curvature peptic ulcers had been described, but in those reports it was accepted that the etiology and treatment of these ulcers were the same as for those elsewhere in the stomach. The first published proved case, in 1914, was of a peptic ulcer with chronic perforation into the spleen.¹ In 1925² and again in 1928³ reviews were published, revealing only 10 histologically proved cases to that time. Sladk⁴ added another case in 1928. In 1931, Sproull,⁵ in a discussion of greater curvature ulcers, reported a case which roentgenographically and grossly appeared benign but histologically proved to be a carcinoma. Mathews, in 1935,⁶ reported two . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
HINES, ILL.

From the Gastroenterology Section, Medical Service, Veterans Administration Hospital, Hines, Ill.

Footnotes
Formerly at Hines, now at Long Beach 8 (Lakewood), Calif. (Dr. Baker).

Reviewed in the Veterans Administration and published with the approval of the Chief Medical Director. The statements and conclusions published by the authors are the result of their own study and do not necessarily reflect the opinion or policy of the Veterans Administration.

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