[Our experience in the surgical treatment of perforated duodenal ulcer]

The Authors present their surgical experience of more than a decade with regard to emergency therapy of perforated duodenal ulcers. The paper covers the case of 124 patients hospitalized urgently and variously subjected to the aspirative method according to Taylor, raphe, vagotomy and pyloroplasty according to Judd, or immediate gastric resection. With regard to the short, medium and long term results, they conclude in favour of immediate vagotomy, free from dangers and mortality, the fairly positive nature of immediate gastric resection, and the failure or at any rate low reliability of the other two methods used.