Surgery

IN 1963, a group of 60 patients with clinically active. chronic duodenal ulcers resistant to medical management were treated by gastric hypothermia and studied from the standpoint of clinical, radiological and gastric secretory changes. The technique of gastric hypothermia used was essentially the same as that originally outlined by Wangansteen. The following observations have been made during an 18 to 24 months follow up, In almost all patients there was relief of symptoms in the immediate post-freezing period, and in the early follow-up period 700/. of those FUNDAMENTALS OF PHYSIOLOGIC CONTROL OF ARTERIAL HEMORRHAGE. G. W. Shaf'tan et alii, Surgery, 1965. 58 : 851-855 (November).