GASTRIC ULCER OCCURRING IN A PATIENT AFTER LOBOTOMY
Authors: V W LOGAN, B B BOBOWIEC
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1952)

Case Reports1 April 1952GASTRIC ULCER OCCURRING IN A PATIENT AFTER LOBOTOMYVICTOR W. LOGAN, M.D., F.A.C.P., BASIL B. BOBOWIEC, M.D.VICTOR W. LOGAN, M.D., F.A.C.P., BASIL B. BOBOWIEC, M.D.Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-36-4-1093 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptDuring the past year we have observed the appearance of a chronic, non-healing gastric ulcer of the lesser curvature in a patient who had had bilateral prefrontal lobotomy performed 10 months previously.CASE REPORTA single white male was admitted to the Veterans Administration Hospital in Canandaigua, New York, on January 1, 1943, at the age of 37 years. His early life had been spent in an orphanage, from which he was adopted at the age of 12 by his present guardian foster parents. He finished the eighth grade at the age of 15 and worked as a farm laborer...Bibliography1. WattsFulton JWJF: Intussusception—relation of the cerebral cortex to intestinal motility in the monkey, New England J. Med. 210: 883-896, 1934. CrossrefGoogle Scholar2. Sheehan D: Effects of cortical stimulation on the gastric movements in the monkey, J. Physiol. 83: 177-184, 1934. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar3. HesserLangworthyKolb FHORLC: Experimental study of gastric activity released from cortical control, J. Neurophysiol. 4: 274-283, 1941. CrossrefGoogle Scholar4. BaileySweet PWH: Effects of respiration, blood pressure and gastric motility of stimulation of orbital surface of frontal lobe, J. Neurophysiol. 3: 276-281, 1940. CrossrefGoogle Scholar5. MettlerSpindlerMettlerCombs FAJCCJD: Disturbance in gastrointestinal function after localized ablations of cerebral cortex, Arch. Surg. 32: 618-623, 1936. CrossrefGoogle Scholar6. PetersenBuchstein MCHF: Prefrontal lobotomy in chronic psychosis, Am. J. Psychiat. 99: 426-430, 1942. CrossrefGoogle Scholar7. Reed JA: A study of gastric acids in prefrontal lobotomy, Gastroenterology 10: 118-119, 1948. MedlineGoogle Scholar8. SweetCotziasSeedYakovlev WHGCJP: Gastrointestinal hemorrhages, hyperglycemia, azotemia, hyperchloremia and hypernatremia following lesions of the frontal lobe in man. The Frontal Lobes—A. Research Nerv. and Ment. Dis., Proc. 27: 795-822, 1948. MedlineGoogle Scholar9. : Selective partial ablation of the human cortex, Fred A. Mettler, Editor, 1949, Paul B. Hoeber, Inc., New York. Google Scholar10. : Selective partial ablation of the human cortex, Fred A. Mettler, Editor, 1949, Paul B. Hoeber, Inc., New York, Chapter 6, pp. 82-102. Google Scholar11. Carpenter MB: The influence of frontal topectomy upon gastric secretion, J. Nerv. and Ment. Dis. To be published. Google Scholar12. WolfWolff SHG: Human gastric function, 1943, Oxford University Press, New York. Google Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: *Received for publication March 31, 1950.From the Department of Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, and the U. S. Veterans Administration Hospital, Canandaigua, New York.Reviewed in the Veterans Administration and published with the approval of the Chief Medical Director. The statements and conclusions published by the authors are the result of their own study and do not necessarily reflect the opinion or policy of the Veterans Administration. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byPsychochirurgieCAN PAIN BE HYSTERICAL?The Visceral Brain of Man 1 April 1952Volume 36, Issue 4Page: 1093-1097KeywordsDentistryGastric ulcersHospital medicine Issue Published: 1 April 1952 PDF downloadLoading ...