[Surgical treatment of the combined gastric and duodenal ulcers].

Results of the surgical treatment of 354 patients with the combined gastric and duodenal ulcers were analyzed. Hard to be resected ulcers (giant, multiple, <>) were found in 32,8% of cases. Thus, amount of <> ulcers and stenotic deformations of the duodenum (67,2%) defined the necessity of radical operative treatment - gastric resection, as a rule, atypical.

[On the nature of secondary ulcers of the stomach].

The authors have studied two main groups of causes of the arising of secondary ulcers of the stomach: ulcerous aetiology due to stenosing duodenal ulcers (238 patients--81.1%) and non-ulcerous aetiology (53 patients--18.2%).