title: Natural history of patients with x-ray-negative dyspepsia in general practice.
abstract: When 102 patients with dyspepsia who had normal findings on barium-meal examination in 1964 were interviewed in 1970, 85 of them (76%) were symptomatically improved, and only three were later shown to have a peptic ulcer. This suggests that "x-ray-negative dyspepsia" has a good prognosis in a general practice setting.
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D001466:Barium Sulfate; D004415:Dyspepsia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D005194:Family Practice; D006801:Humans; D010437:Peptic Ulcer / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011379:Prognosis; D011859:Radiography; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D001466:Barium Sulfate