THE PROBLEM OF PEPTIC ULCER
Authors: F A JONES
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1956)

Article1 January 1956THE PROBLEM OF PEPTIC ULCERF. AVERY JONES, M.D., F.R.C.P.F. AVERY JONES, M.D., F.R.C.P.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-44-1-63 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptDespite the tremendous amount of research work, peptic ulcer remains one of the outstanding problems of clinical medicine today. My approach has been that of an internist interested in the clinical features and natural history of the disease. In this connection, I wish to mention briefly the difficulties of clinical diagnosis, and then to stress particularly the various ways in which gastric and duodenal ulcer behave independently. These differences may provide some further clues which may help toward the final elucidation of the etiology. 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Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: London,*Presented at the Thirty-sixth Annual Session of The American College of Physicians, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 29, 1955. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byGastroenterologiePeptic ulcer surgery: selection for operation by `earning'CAUSE OF PEPTIC ULCER 1 January 1956Volume 44, Issue 1Page: 63-77KeywordsDuodenal ulcersEtiologyGastric ulcersNatural history of diseasePeptic ulcersUlcers ePublished: 1 December 2008 Issue Published: 1 January 1956 PDF downloadLoading ...