CLINICAL MEASUREMENT OF GASTRIC SECRETION: SIGNIFICANCE AND LIMITATIONS
Authors: H L SEGAL
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1960)

Article1 September 1960CLINICAL MEASUREMENT OF GASTRIC SECRETION: SIGNIFICANCE AND LIMITATIONSHARRY L. SEGAL, M.D., F.A.C.P.HARRY L. SEGAL, M.D., F.A.C.P.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-53-3-445 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptINTRODUCTIONA decade of experience with tubeless gastric analysis technics has provided sufficient data to allow a comparative evaluation of intubation and tubeless gastric analysis procedures in clinical medicine. This paper will describe the rationale, indications and limitations of a proposed gastric analysis routine, developed as a result of this evaluation.In the past, clinical gastric analysis has concerned itself largely with the measurement of the hydrochloric acid and, to a lesser extent, with the level of enzyme activity in the gastric contents obtained by aspiration. 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Y.*Received for publication April 22, 1960.Presented at the Forty-first Annual Session of The American College of Physicians, San Francisco, California, April 7, 1960.From the Departments of Medicine, the Genesee, Strong Memorial and Rochester Municipal Hospitals, The University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, N. Y.†Supported by a special medical research fund and the Isaac Gordon Fund.Requests for reprints should be addressed to Harry L. Segal, M.D., The University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, 260 Crittenden Boulevard, Rochester 20, N. Y. 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