Surgery in bleeding peptic ulcers.
This paper records a study of 400 patients admitted for haematemesis and melaena. Emergency surgery was undertaken on selected patients but the overall mortality increased when more frequent emergency operations were performed in the latter half of the series.
D005743:Gastrectomy / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006396:Hematemesis; D006801:Humans; D008551:Melena; D010437:Peptic Ulcer; D010438:Peptic Ulcer Hemorrhage / Q000601:surgery*
GASTRECTOMY/statistics; PEPTIC ULCER HEMORRHAGE/surgery