Abstract
1. Sixty patients after partial gastrectomy were subjected to the d-xylose test and to jejunal biopsy. The feces of 34 patients of this group were examined for fat excretion. 2. In about one third of the patients a pathological d-xylose test, higher fecal fat and inflammatory changes in jejunal mucosa were observed. 3. Pathological d-xylose test values and higher fecal fat excretion were found in both normal andpathological jejunal mucosa.
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