RECURRENT STOMAL ULCER, REFRACTIVE TO REPEATED OPERATIVE PROCEDURES.

Duodenal ulcer as a disease is a composite of interrelated physiologic, biochemical and psychic disturbances. The efforts of the surgeon to relieve the symptoms by antral gastric resections and/or vagotomy have been successful except for a small percentage of patients. The recent reports of finding of certain endocrine tumors associated with the refractive ulcer patient marks another major advance in the understanding of the ulcer problem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]