RUPTURED GASTRIC ULCER IN INFANCY: REPORT OF CASE

Abstract

Although the literature abounds in reports of duodenal ulcers, the occurrence of gastric ulcer in infants is exceedingly rare. A careful search has revealed only three cases of ruptured gastric ulcer in infants under 2 months of age. In 7,219 autopsies reported by Sturtevant and Shapiro 1 from Bellevue Hospital, there were five cases of gastric ulcer in children. Adler 2 reports twenty-six fatal cases of gastric ulcer in children, nine of which had perforated. Proctor, 3 reporting from the Mayo Clinic for the years 1906-1924, describes only two cases of typical gastric ulcer in children. Thiele 4 states that gastric ulcer in children under 16 years of age is comparaively rare, and reports 119 cases. Cackovic 5 found that 2.3 per cent of gastric ulcer in his clinic was in children under 10 years of age. Carteaux 6 reports the first recorded fatal case of ulcer of the stomach in a new-born infant, in