[A clinico-morphological parallel in peptic ulcer in middle and old age]

Based of clinical and obduction case material covering the period 1990-1997, the clinical profile, morphological patterns and therapeutic approach, consistent with the specificity of age, complications of the basic disease and presence of concomitant diseases, are summed up. The results of biopsy and necropsy studies, following statistical processing by the methods of variation and correlation analysis, afford information on the morbidity in either gender, as well as on the location and morphological patterns of ulcers, their complications and associated diseases. Over the period 1990 through 1997, a total of 5425 cases are subjected to obduction study. Of them 799 (14.7 per cent) are with ulcers, 543 men and 256 women at 2.1-to-1 male-to-female ratio. Four-hundred fifty-nine (54.4 per cent) are in advanced and old age, at male-to-female ratio 1.9-to-1. There are 362 gastric ulcer patients (45 per cent), 237 men and 125 women, at male-to-female ratio 1.8-to-1. Of the latter 176 (48.6 per cent) are in advanced and old age, 94 men and 82 women at approximative male-to-female ratio 1-to-1.