RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Surgery in Bleeding Peptic Ulcers
JF Gut
JO Gut
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and British Society of Gastroenterology
SP 258
OP 265
DO 10.1136/gut.1.3.258
VO 1
IS 3
A1 Ward-McQuaid, J. N.
A1 Pease, J. C.
A1 Smith, A. McEwen
A1 Twort, R. J.
YR 1960
UL http://gut.bmj.com/content/1/3/258.abstract
AB 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.