[Gastric resection after the suturing of perforated ulcers].

The article deals with the authors' experience in reoperations for complications of peptic ulcer occurring after suturing of a perforation. The stomach was resected in 237 patients, after Billroth I in 71.3 and after Billroth II in 28.

[Analysis of mortality in perforated gastroduodenal ulcers].

Lethality from ruptured gastroduodenal ulcers in the Smolensk region in the period from 1976 till 1988 was analyzed. Operations were performed on 2222 patients, 76 of them died (3.42%).