FACTORS INFLUENCING DEVELOPMENT OF BULBAR DEFORMITY IN DUODENAL ULCER DISEASE:

Sixty subjects were carefully interrogated and repeatedly endo2coped with a view to studying the effect
of sucralfate on healing and recurrence of duodenal ulcer disease. Degree of bulbar deform1ty was noted during each” endoscopy. Puring the tri~l it appeared that deformity progressed more rapidly in late cnset subjects (onset at
or above 30 years of age). In eight subjects deformity became gross over a period of three years. Seven of them belonged to the late onset subgroup. Two subject had large ulcers and both belonged to the…

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