HIATUS HERNIA AND DIVERTICULUM OF THE COLON. THEIR LOW INCIDENCE IN KOREA.

Abstract

THE incidence of hiatus hernia, as reported by many authors, varies from 2.3 to 50 per cent. Boyd et al.1 reported a figure of 2.3 per cent in 1500 barium examinations, and Krothe2 one of 8 per cent. Hafter3 noted a frequency of 12.5 per cent in a large series of 2402 barium-meal examinations. In 1960 Stein and Finkelstein4 reported finding hernias in 50 per cent of 100 consecutive barium-meal examinations. These wide variations may be attributable in part to the technics used and in part to the criteria on which this diagnosis is based. Diverticulosis of the colon is . . .