[Gastroscopic findings in aged patients (author's transl)]

Endoscopic findings in a group of 169 aged patients are shown to be concentrated in the stomach, whereas pathologic findings in the duodenal bulb are less frequent. In comparison to a group of young patients gastric mucosal atrophy, gastric ulcer, carcinoma of the operated and unoperated stomach, polyps are predominant in the aged patients. Approximately one half of carcinomas were seen in patients operated by the Billroth II technique. On behalf of this fact it is necessary to review patients endoscopically from the fifteenth year after operation on with regularity in order to detect growth of carcinoma in the early stage.