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BENIGN AND MALIGNANT GASTRIC ULCERS: THEIR RELATION AND CLINICAL DIFFERENTIATION

1939; American College of Physicians; Volume: 13; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.7326/0003-4819-13-2-317

1539-3704

Walter L. Palmer,

Gastric Cancer Management and Outcomes

Article1 August 1939BENIGN AND MALIGNANT GASTRIC ULCERS: THEIR RELATION AND CLINICAL DIFFERENTIATIONWALTER LINCOLN PALMER, M.D.WALTER LINCOLN PALMER, M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-13-2-317 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptThe purpose of this paper is to consider briefly the relationship between benign and malignant gastric ulcers, the clinical differentiation of the two lesions, and the therapeutic implications.RELATIONSHIPA few years after Cruveilhier differentiated gastric ulcer from gastric carcinoma, Rokitansky described a case interpreted as showing the carcinomatous transformation of a benign ulcer. An enormous controversial literature has since developed regarding, first, the existence of carcinomatous degeneration in ulcer, and, secondly, the incidence of such a process. 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