[Treatment of perforated duodenal ulcers (author's transl)]

No single therapeutic procedure exists for the treatment of perforated duodenal ulcers, and a marked degree of bias is found in published results. These studies are analysed, and a therapeutic schedule proposed which takes into account the chronicity of the ulcer lesion before perforation, the open or covered nature of the ulcer as shown by radiographic examination with a water-soluble medium, and the general condition of the patient.