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. 1972 Dec 2;4(5839):519-20.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.4.5839.519.

Natural history of patients with x-ray-negative dyspepsia in general practice

D W Gregory, G T Davies, K T Evans, J Rhodes

Natural history of patients with x-ray-negative dyspepsia in general practice

D W Gregory et al. Br Med J. .

Abstract

When 102 patients with dyspepsia who had normal findings on barium-meal examination in 1964 were interviewed in 1970, 85 of them (76%) were symptomatically improved, and only three were later shown to have a peptic ulcer. This suggests that "x-ray-negative dyspepsia" has a good prognosis in a general practice setting.

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