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J N WARD-McQUAID, J C PEASE, A McEWEN SMITH, R J TWORT.
Abstract
This paper records a study of 400 patients admitted for haematemesis and melaena. Emergency surgery was undertaken on selected patients but the overall mortality increased when more frequent emergency operations were performed in the latter half of the series.Entities:
Keywords: GASTRECTOMY/statistics; PEPTIC ULCER HEMORRHAGE/surgery
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Year: 1960 PMID: 13783125 PMCID: PMC1413179 DOI: 10.1136/gut.1.3.258
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Gut ISSN: 0017-5749 Impact factor: 23.059