Experience of peptic ulcer perforation over a decade in a teaching hospital of southern Bangladesh.

Objective: To determine disease characteristics, check the treatment status and compare outcome with other series.

Design And Setting: A retrospective study in a single unit of the Department of Surgery of Khulna Medical College Hospital, south west Bangladesh.

Patients And Methods: After diagnosis by clinical and radiological examination, 491 patients were treated during the period July 1992 to November 2002.