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THE INCIDENCE OF GASTRECTOMY AND GASTRIC SECRETION IN MOTOR NEURON DISEASE
Author(s) -
STIEL J. N.
Publication year - 1967
Publication title -
australasian annals of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.596
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1445-5994
pISSN - 0571-9283
DOI - 10.1111/imj.1967.16.2.176
Subject(s) - gastrectomy , motor neuron , disease , gastroenterology , medicine , incidence (geometry) , neuron , cancer , psychiatry , physics , optics
Summary In a review of 125 patients with motor neuron disease, no instance of gastrectomy was recorded, and the gastric secretions in five patients with motor neuron disease were found to be normal. These observations lead one to doubt the reported association between gastrectomy and motor neuron disease.