Crucial to the management of gastric ulceration is the accurate distinction between benign and malignant lesions. Controversy continues over how this should be achieved, the conclusion from a recent retrospective study' being that all gastric ulcers should be assessed endoscopically and tissue obtained for histological diagnosis by means of multiple biopsy and brush cytology. Good-quality doubl...

Equine gastric ulcer syndrome (EGUS) and right dorsal colitis (RDC) are common in performance horses. Diagnoses are based on history, clinical signs, laboratory findings, gastroscopic examination, and response to altered diet and medical therapy. Effective treatment strategies for EGUS focus on increasing stomach pH by inhibiting or buffering gastric acid, which allows a permissive environment ...

introduction & objective: in vitro studies shown the effect of zinc sulfate on healing of ulcers but limited in vivo studies have been done to demonstrate this effect in human. this study was conducted to investigate the effect of zinc sulfate on peptic ulcer disease materials & methods: this is a double blind randomized clinical trial study. we studied people who referred to endoscopy clinic i...

Peptic oesophagitis and peptic ulceration of the squamous epithelium of the oesophagus are secondary to regurgitation of digestive juices, are most commonly found in those patients where the competence ofthe cardia has been lost through herniation of the stomach into the mediastinum, and have been aptly named by Barrett (1950) " reflux oesophagitis." In the past there has been some discussion a...

A 62-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital with septic shock due to left submandibular osteomyelitis and cellulitis. Her condition improved following tooth extraction, drainage, and the administration of antibiotics. However, on the 4th day of hospitalization, she went into hemorrhagic shock after defecating a massive tarry stool. Emergency esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) was performed. ...

Gohar, a Mahomedan male, about 50 years old, was admitted in the Main Dispensary, Saugor, 011 the 26th August, 1SS3, with a hard cancerous ulcer?about the size of a closed fist?on the epigastric region He was very weak and cachectic, with excruciating pain in the stomach, increasing each time after taking a meal ; the surrounding tissues of the abdominal wall were very much hardened and indurat...

In May, 1927, a child eleven weeks old was admitted uinder my care iinto the Bristol Royal Infirmary suffering from a chronic ulcer of the stomach. At the autopsy I commented to the pathologist (Dr. A. ]D. Fraser) on the rarity of this condition in my experience, and he replied by showing me a specimen of duodenal ulcer in a child only five days old which he ha(l found at an autopsy not very lo...

Cocaine or Benzoylmethylecgonine is an alkaloid extracted from the leaves of the Erythroxylon plant, which can cause gastrointestinal ischemia from severe arterial vasoconstriction via stimulation of alpha-adrenergic receptors in the gastric and mesenteric arteries. We report this case of a 65-year-old man who presented with a single massive ulcer at the incisura of the stomach as a result of c...

The use of metals and minerals is predominant in siddha system of medicine. As per siddha concept, peptic ulcer is known as Valigunmam, the basic abnormality appears to be the derangement of metabolism in the stomach and duodenum resulting in malfunctioning of the secretory process of gastric mucosa. Chendooram is a group of siddha drugs which is used for anemia, obesity, rheumatic diseases; ab...

Of the many causes of indigestion and pain after food, ulceration of the stomach and duodenum ranks first. Whereas errors of diet and habit, anxiety and worry, dental sepsis, etc. may be numerically much commoner causes, the proof or definite exclusion of ulceration is important because on this will depend the type of treatment which should be adopted. If an ulcer is found, there is an absolute...