[Results of surgical treatment of peptic ulcer in old age (author's transl)].

The poor results of surgical treatment of peptic ulceration in old age can only be improved if both internal medicine and surgery will find guiding principles for operative indications. 1. Chronic ulcer is an indication of operative treatment even in old age. - 2. Conservative treatment of phyloric stenosis caused by peptic ulceration is only permissable, if a florid ulcer in evident. - 3. The evidence of a chronic bleeding ulcer indicates surgical treatment. Suitable short-time conservative treatment gives better conditions for any type of surgery.-4. The perforated ulcer in old age should only be treated by the smallest surgical procedure. Antibiotic therapy should begin immediately after establishing the diagnosis.