[Upper gastrointestinal bleeding: comparison between the diagnostic conclusions of emergency fibroscopy and those of surgery (author's transl)].

Amongst 1035 patients who underwent oesophago-gastro-duodenal fibroscopy as an emergency for an upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage between January 1973 and May 1977, 100 required surgery. The operative findings were compared with those of endoscopy. In 92 cases, surgical exploration found the same lesions that the endoscopist had reported as being responsible for the haemorrhage.