Studies on the Relationship between Gastric Ulcers and Fungi Part 1. Studies on the Clinical Obserbations of the Gastric Ulcers with Fungi in their Bottom

Mycotic and clinical studies were carried out on gastric ulcers with fungi in their bottom, For this purpose 136 stomachs with ulcer were collected by means of operation. The results were as follows: 1. The gastric ulcers with fungi in their bottom were found in 38 cases out of 136 (27.9%). 2. Massive bleeding showed 13 cases out of these 38 (34.2%). 3. As for the majority of the gastric ulcers with fungi in their bottom clinical manifestations were as follows: in most cases, the duration of complaints was more than 1 year, the size of the ulcers was more than 1cm, the depth of the ulcers reached to the muscle layer, the site of the ulcers was the angle or the body of the stomachs, the patients were middleaged or old aged and the sex of the patients was male. According to these clinical findings the gastric ulcers with fungi in their bottom were regarded as a chronic and a hard to be cured type. 4. Most of the fungi found on the surface of gastric ulcers were identified as Candida albicans.