Annual report of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital : 1929.

  • Peter Bent Brigham Hospital.
Date:
1929
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Credit: Annual report of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital : 1929. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    toms. The frequency of the various lesions in the oesophagus is as follows: Oesophagus Cases Diverticulum. 10 Carcinoma. 9 Cardiospasm . 5 Stricture . 3 Spasm . 1 Total . 28 Of the oesophageal diverticula, only one was large enough to cause symptoms, the others being of the small “traction” variety, usually found in the middle third of the oesophagus and probably due to adhesions from inflammatory processes in the mediastinum. Stomach The incidence of the major lesions found in the stomach are, in order of frequency, as follows: Stomach Cases Gastric ulcer. 55 Post-operative stomach. 36 Gastric carcinoma . 32 Diaphragmatic hernia . 9 Gastric syphilis . 3 Total . 135 It is to be noted that ulcer heads the list but leads only by a small margin, and in second place we have post-operative stomachs, patients, in other words, who have had some operation upon the stomach and who return for further examination because of a con¬ tinuance or a recurrence of symptoms. Nearly all of these operations were for ulcer, but in this group the ulcers either were absent, or could not be demonstrated,