Show doctors make new stomachs small part of organ made to grow advance n treating ulcers NEW YORK new stomachs ere cre abed by surgery were described to the american college of surgeons who met here recently their crea tion follows discovery that if even a little bit of a stomach remains it can be spliced to an intestinal organ that will grow like a new room added to a house to replace some of the lot loft area about a nickel s worth of ach is all that may be needed it was stated A nickel s worth is one fifth to one sixth of a normal stomach it is so little that at first the patient may be unable to hold even a small meal at ordinary eating pace De desperate operation how these new methods have been discovered as the result of des operations to save life when stomachs were found far gone from ulcer or cancer was told by several surgeons dr hans finsterer of vienna one of the foremost ulcer surgeons in the world re reported poTted it is sometimes better to throw away most of the stomach rather than try to save all he criticized a standard stomach ulcer operation as a cause of still more dangerous ulcers this operation makes an opening in the bottom of the ach to detour around an ulcer situ abed at the exit high eato rate of cues doctor Fini said that by re moving two thirds of the stomach he has effected 95 per cent of cures a figure much higher than that achieved through the more consert active operation to complete the one third ach left doctor Fini Vini fastens to it one of the canals of the upper intestine the jejunum and they unite another surgeon told of P man mail who ate as much as his would hold the c after about five sixths of it had L i 1 removed this man recovered as quickly as from an appendix operation warning that inhaling tobacco smoke may lead to cancer of the lungs was issued in a report by dr alton and dr michael debakey of tulane university school of frie medicine dicine |