. The American journal of roentgenology, radium therapy and nuclear medicine . ecent history, syphiliswas suspected and a Wassermann testadvised. Subsequent History. At a well-knownhospital to which the patient was nowtaken, a diagnosis of inoperable carcinomaof the stomach was made and the patientreturned home. In the meantime, thenausea, vomiting and cramps had tests, now performed, werepositive (four plus). Intensive antisyphilitic treatment wasinstituted, intravenous arsphenaniine, mer-cury intramuscularly and potassium iodideby mouth. The rapid subsidence of symp-toms un
. The American journal of roentgenology, radium therapy and nuclear medicine . ecent history, syphiliswas suspected and a Wassermann testadvised. Subsequent History. At a well-knownhospital to which the patient was nowtaken, a diagnosis of inoperable carcinomaof the stomach was made and the patientreturned home. In the meantime, thenausea, vomiting and cramps had tests, now performed, werepositive (four plus). Intensive antisyphilitic treatment wasinstituted, intravenous arsphenaniine, mer-cury intramuscularly and potassium iodideby mouth. The rapid subsidence of symp-toms under the antisyphilitic treatment 538 A Case of Syphilis of the Stomach was very gratifying. Early in the course oftreatment impro\ement was noted, andby the time the entire course had beenadministered, the patient was clinically was again referred for examinationexactly six months after his first exnmina- SUMMARY A patient sixty-one years old begins tocomplain of gastrointestinal examination discloses thepresence of a neoplasm of the Fig. I. Filling defect in pars media. tion, and the stomach was seen to be radio-graphically normal. The site of the largedefect in the pars media now showednormal in contour, peristaltic waves wereseen to pass over areas which they hadpreviously skipped, and the normal capac-ity ot the stomach was restored. Fig. 2. Six months later, after intensive antisyphilitictreatment. Stomach normal in contour. which might readily be considered ofmalignant nature. Its luetic nature was proven by the fourplus Wassermann reaction, and the rapidrestoration ot the stomach to normal,following active antisyphilitic treatment. REPORT OF A CASE OF ADENO-PAPILLOMA OF THE STOMACH* BY I. S. INGBER, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA THE general belief is prevalent that alladeno-papillomata of the stomach areof a cancerous nature. Most of the accumulated information onthis subiect has emanated from patholog-ical institutes where the
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