Cough Fracture

Abstract

prognosis is any worse than that of non-perforating carcin6mas. Neither of the two cases resected showed ascites or other evidence of widespread peritoneal metastases. One died after 20 months, but the other is alive and well with no evidence of recurrence 31 months after total gastrectomy. Summary Of a total of 111 acute perforations in five years, 6 proved to be carcinomatous. The incidence of carcinoma in perforated gastric ulcer was at least 16.7%, and may have been even higher. The reasons why it is impossible to assess this risk exactly are discussed.