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[Gastroduodenal ulcer disease: update on pathogenesis].
Praxis - 9 May 1995
Wirth H P
Abstract excerpt
Gastroduodenal ulcer disease comprises a heterogeneous group of different diseases resulting uniformly in a mucosal defect reaching beyond the muscularis mucosae. Consequently, a single unifying pathogenesis of ulcer disease does not exist but only a rather general concept that ulcers develop when mucosa-injuring factors outweigh the mucosa-protecting factors. According to this concept, ulcers develop within a...
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