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Henry A. Schlang, MD
Tampa, Fla

JAMA. 1970;214(7):1329.

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To the Editor.—

In his chapter on bezoars, Bockus¹ notes that surgeons performing gastroenterostomy or gastrectomy for pyloric stenosis often find masses of food detritus in the stomach of patients who have been carefully prepared by lavage with a small stomach tube for weeks. We have had occasions to encounter such a mass on an x-ray film series of the upper gastrointestinal (GI) tract in a patient with a chronic obstructing ulcer of the duodenum. Our management with acetylcysteine (Mucomyst) may be of interest to others meeting with such problems. This agent has been used to reduce the viscosity of abnormally viscid pulmonary and bronchial secretions.

Report of a Case.—

A 42-year-old white man was admitted to Tampa (Fla) General Hospital on Dec 22, 1969, with a diagnosis of recurrent carcinoma of the lung. Through Dec 28, there had been little vomiting, but the patient complained of considerable pain . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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