Diagnosis and treatment of perforated or bleeding peptic ulcers: 2013 WSES position paper

Affiliations

¹ Emergency and General Surgery Dept, Maggiore Hospital- Bologna Local Health District, Bologna, Italy.
² Department of Gastroenterology and Operative Endoscopy, Maggiore Hospital- Bologna Local Health District, Bologna, Italy.
³ Liver and Multivisceral Transplantation Unit, University of Modena&Reggio Emilia - Policlinico Hospital, Modena, Italy.
⁴ General and Emergency and Trauma Surgery, I unit, Ospedali Riuniti, Bergamo, Italy.
⁵ Port Shepstone Regional Hospital, Port Shepstone, South Africa - Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.
⁶ Department of Surgery, Hospital of Macerata, Macerata, Italy.
⁷ Emergency and Trauma Surgery Dept., Maggiore Hospital of Parma, Parma, Italy.

^# Contributed equally.

Review

Salomone Di Saverio et al. World J Emerg Surg. 2014.

. 2014 Aug 3:9:45.

doi: 10.1186/1749-7922-9-45. eCollection 2014.

¹ Emergency and General Surgery Dept, Maggiore Hospital- Bologna Local Health District, Bologna, Italy.
² Department of Gastroenterology and Operative Endoscopy, Maggiore Hospital- Bologna Local Health District, Bologna, Italy.
³ Liver and Multivisceral Transplantation Unit, University of Modena&Reggio Emilia - Policlinico Hospital, Modena, Italy.
⁴ General and Emergency and Trauma Surgery, I unit, Ospedali Riuniti, Bergamo, Italy.
⁵ Port Shepstone Regional Hospital, Port Shepstone, South Africa - Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.
⁶ Department of Surgery, Hospital of Macerata, Macerata, Italy.
⁷ Emergency and Trauma Surgery Dept., Maggiore Hospital of Parma, Parma, Italy.

^# Contributed equally.

No abstract available

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