In 1959 Bartlett and Jones 4 described 4 patients with the lower esophageal ring operated upon at the Massachusetts General Hospital. In each of these 4 cases a small sliding hiatus hernia was ...

The clinical and autopsy records of patients in whom the diagnosis of esophageal varices was made from 1950 to 1957 at this hospital were examined. The records of the 50 patients in whom the tube ...

Elsewhere in this issue of the Journal Welch and his colleagues present an excellent plan for the management of upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage from esophageal varices. The extremely high ...