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Management of Recurrent Peptic Ulcer Disease

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The advent of proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) and histamine-2 (H2) blockers has led to a significant decrease in the number of patients who require surgical management of peptic ulcer disease. However, there is still a small subset of patients with pathologies that will lead to recurrent peptic ulcer disease. Understanding these pathologies is critical in allowing clinicians to correctly identify and treat them.

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Dickler, C.J., Spaniolas, K. (2019). Management of Recurrent Peptic Ulcer Disease. In: Docimo Jr., S., Pauli, E. (eds) Clinical Algorithms in General Surgery . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98497-1_42

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