Expediency of preventive examination of the upper parts of the gastrointestinal tract
Petrov, V.P.; Savvin, I.N.; Klimov, N.P.
Vestnik Khirurgii Imeni I. I. Grekova 131(10): 139-141
1983
ISSN/ISBN: 0042-4625 PMID: 6659274 Document Number: 209477
Gastroscopic examination of 528 practically healthy people showed that every fifth person aged from 41 to 60 and every third one older than 60 had a focal pathology of the stomach such as cancer, polyps, errosion, ulcer etc. Prophylactic gastroscopy is shown to be necessary in people aged over 45.