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Clinical Aspects and Experiences with Conservative Treatment

LIEUT. COL. EDDY D. PALMER, MC

AMA Arch Intern Med. 1957;99(5):695-700.

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Esophageal ulcer has a well-deserved reputation for seriousness due to the constant threat of hemorrhage and perforation.¹ In fact, because of these dangers a radical surgical approach to therapy may be indicated in a portion of cases and has been urged by some clinicians as proper for most cases.² One notices, however, that recently reported series^3,4 of esophageal ulcer patients show a considerably smaller proportion of serious complications than many of the older series.^5,6 It is highly unlikely that there has been any change in the behavior of the lesion; rather, it appears that formerly a good many esophageal ulcers made their presence known only through their complications, while more recently the increasing popularity of medical esophagoscopy has served to bring to light many ulcers which otherwise would have gone unrecognized.

Primary esophageal ulcer usually occurs as a single lesion and almost always involves the distal . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
U. S. Army

From the Medical Service, 2nd General Hospital, APO 180, New York.

Footnotes
Received for publication Nov. 12, 1956.

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