Enteritis and Polyarthritis following Partial Gastrectomy

Pulmonary tuberculosis following partial gastrectomy.

Acute on Chronic Jejuno-gastric Intussusception following Partial Gastrectomy.

Case Report In 1943 Mr. G. A. S. had an antecolic valved Hofmeister partial gastrectomy performed for a high posterior wall gastric ulcer. The operation stood him in good stead for many years but after I 2 years he had an attack of epigastric pain lasting an hour and in the following year he suddenly got another attack after drinking one-and-a-half pints of beer. The pain lasted all night and i...

Hypoxaemia after Partial Gastrectomy.

After partial gastrectomy there is hypoxaemia which persists for many days. This occurs in patients without complications as well as in those who develop pulmonary collapse; and although pulmonary mechanical function is much impaired as a result of the operation in both, in neither is post-operative hypoxaemia due to inadequate alveolar ventilation since the arterial (alveolar) CO2 tension is n...

Osteomalacia following gastrectomy.

Pernicious Anemia following Gastrectomy

Disappointment in the ultimate results of cancer treatment is frequent enough to discourage even the most optimistic. But the final straw is to see a patient, cured, we may say, of carcinoma of the breast, come back after ten years of freedom from the disease with an inoperable carcinoma of the rectum, or a patient with a ten-year cure of carcinoma of the cervix with radium suddenly develop ext...