[Acute digestive tract ulcers in patients suffering from burns]

Among the burned who died in the clinic of thermal injuries for the last 17 years acute ulcer of the gastrointestinal tract of various localization and number were found in 48 cases. Only in 13 of them the clinical diagnosis had been established. Bleeding from acute ulcers of the digestive tract and their perforation had been found, as a rule, at the 2nd and mainly at the 3rd week from the moment of the burn injury. A high lethality among the Curling's ulcer eases following both conservative and surgical treatment is noted.