| dc.contributor.author | Kakande, I | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-06-11T08:08:28Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2013-06-11T08:08:28Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1991-01 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | East Afr Med J. 1991 Jan;68(1):15-20 | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2060475 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/31212 | |
| dc.description.abstract | In this study, 157 patients who underwent surgery for peptic ulcer disease in a 215-bed mission hospital in Nyeri, Kenya were evaluated. One hundred and thirty seven patients (87.3%) had duodenal ulcer. Vagotomy and drainage was performed in 82.8% with an overall mortality of 1.3%. There were no serious complications during operation but side effects were experienced during the post operative period. Various aspects of peptic ulcer surgery are discussed | en |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | University of Nairobi | en |
| dc.title | Peptic ulcer surgery at a rural hospital in Kenya. | en |
| dc.type | Article | en |
| local.publisher | School of medicine,University of Nairobi | en |
| local.publisher | Department of Surgery, Makerere University | en |
