The symptomatic post-surgical stomach--an endoscopic review.
100 consecutive endoscopies in elderly patients referred with symptoms after previous gastric surgery are reviewed. 57% showed positive findings, and the procedure was found particularly useful in making definitive diagnoses in patients presenting with dyspepsia and upper gastro-intestinal bleeding. The incidence of gastric carcinoma was low, and the findings did not support routine repeated endoscopies in elderly patients.
D000368:Aged; D004415:Dyspepsia / Q000175:diagnosis; D005260:Female; D006471:Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / Q000175:diagnosis; D005773:Gastroscopy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011178:Postgastrectomy Syndromes / Q000175:diagnosis*; D013997:Time Factors