[Primary resection in perforated gastric and duodenal ulcers (author's transl)]

From 1951 to 1975 due to perforation of gastric and duodenal ulcers 274 patients have been operated. 179 patients (65,2%) had primary resections of the stomach. The lethality of all patients with perforated gastric and duodenal ulcers was 15%, the lethality rate of primary resections of the perforated stomach amounts to 4,5%.