Surgical treatment of large bleeding duodenal ulcers
Komorovskiĭ, I.T.; Basistiuk, I.I.
Vestnik Khirurgii Imeni I. I. Grekova 141(9): 7-11
1988
ISSN/ISBN: 0042-4625 PMID: 2467425 Document Number: 311777
Results of the surgical treatment of 220 patients are described, in 43 of them the ulcers were more than 2 cm in diameter. The total postoperative lethality was 5.9%, in patients with large size ulcers--11.6%. Specific features of the clinical course, surgical tactics, causes of unfavorable outcomes and methods of prophylactics in patients with large ulcers are discussed.