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Peptic Ulcer among Soldiers in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations

1946; Massachusetts Medical Society; Volume: 234; Issue: 10 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1056/nejm194603072341001

1533-4406

James A. Halsted, H. Weinberg,

Disaster Response and Management

AT THE beginning of the war, it was thought that peptic ulcer would present a serious military medical problem. This has evidently been the case in Army hospitals and induction centers in the United States. Owing to rejections at induction and discharge from the service of patients in Army hospitals in the Zone of the Interior, the disease was not seen in the Mediterranean theater of operations with the frequency expected, particularly after the first year. At the Sixth General Hospital in North Africa, however, to which a considerable proportion of patients were sent for evacuation to the United States, . . .