[Peptic ulcer: indication for surgical treatment (author's transl)]

Treatment of duodenal ulcer has been improved by proxmial gastric vagotomy and the H2 antagonist cimetidine. These new types of treatment may also be useful in gastric ulcer. Thus, new guidelines for the elective surgery and the treatment of bleeding ulcer are needed. These guidelines are obtained by a compromise between the conflicting viewpoints of a surgeon and an internist.