Int Surg
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The catheter is based on the principle of compression and tamponage, assuring and guaranteeing hemostasis at the base of the ulcer. This method is suitable for permanently controlling an acute hemorrhage in the event medical treatment fails and surgery is contraindicated. Emergency surgery is changed to elective surgery with all its advantages.
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Sixty-nine cases of duodenal ulcer perforation and four cases of stomach ulcer perforation are described. One half of the patients underwent vagotomy plus a drainage procedure and the other half had suture of the perforated ulcer. No death occurred in the first group, and hospitalization time was less than was less than that of the second group. Five deaths occurred in the second group.