[Diagnosis and surgical treatment of acute gastrointestinal hemorrhage]

Of 596 patients with acute gastrointestinal bleeding, it developed from the gastric and duodenal, and peptic anastomotic ulcer in 382 (64.1%). The authors consider, that at every regional centre, it is expedient to hospitalize the patients with gastrointestinal bleeding in a single surgical unit, equipped with the endoscopic apparatus and all the necessary facilities for giving emergency surgical aid.