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© 1984 Oxford University Press

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ABSENCE OF ABDOMINAL PAIN IN ELDERLY PATIENTS WITH PEPTIC ULCER*

DAVID CLINCH, Senior Registrar1, ARUP K. BANERJEE, Consultant Physician1 and GRAHAM OSTICK, Consultant2

1Department of Medicine for the Elderly, Bolton General Hospital Bolton, BL4 0JR
2Surgeon Department of General Surgery, Bolton General Hospital Bolton, BL4 0JR

The presentation of peptic ulcer in 132 elderly patients is compared with that in 67 younger patients. Abdominal pain was not present in one third of the elderly group. Absence of pain was associated with the older age group to a highly significant degree (P < 0.001).


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