[The choice of the surgical intervention in nonvaricose hemorrhages of the digestive tract].

In the last years, the emergency endoscopic treatment has greatly reduced the number of non-variceal gastro-duodenal haemorrhages treated by surgery. The authors review the literature from 1980 to 1990 in the light of personal clinical experience and formulate a surgical protocol of the cases not healed by medical or endoscopic therapy.