Talk:Ulcer

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I'd like to expand the ulceration page. There are ulcers of disease process such as sickle cell, diabetes, amyloid. I have some pictures from my practice of some of these. I'm a bit confused by the 'bedsores' article since pressure ulcer would be the general category and bedsore a more specific type of pressure ulcer. I think this is a good place to talk about classification as well and will probably use Wagner's classification though if anyone has some other thoughts, I'd like to discuss them before digging deeply into this.

My thought is that the page could be a general description from an histologic perspective (since gastric ulcers need to be included). I think also a section on pathology including ulcerative change to malignancy would be helpful. A section on classifications and of course pictures. I think too that pointers to other pages will help within wiki - I'll search for some. Last a bit about treatments. DrGnu 16:49, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Please clarify. Under description, it says "Ulcers are non-healing wounds..." then later, number 4 says "A lengthy healing time."  ???

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[edit] News - Ulcers are history?

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/04102005/80/australian-nobel-winner-human-guinea-pig.html

Is this relevant?

No, not for this article; the discovery of H. pylori made duodenal ulcers treatable, but not a thing of the past. We still have NSAID ulcers, stress ulcers in ventilated patients, and so far H. pylori is treatable but not yet eradicated in any form. There is a huge human reservoir. JFW | T@lk 07:01, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] Stress?

Don't most people say stress causes ulcers? If this isn't true, does anyone know where the rumor started, or why people think that in the first place?

When the body is under stress, there is a similar feeling that goes on in the stomach, therefore the only natural progression in thinking would be to say that an ulcer is a more extreme form of that, and therefore caused by a more extreme form of stress. When the paper was submitted (the name eludes me) from the researcher that discovered the form of bacteria that causes ulcers, it was instantly rejected. It was too counter-inuitive to be even accepted by the scientific community at first, and cognitive psychologists see this as a prime example of the error in the Representativeness heuristic that is intrinsic in all humans. Kelvie 22:47, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Description - Non-healing?

I don't know anything about this area, but it seems like there might be a discrepancy between the beginning of the description which reads, "Ulcers are non-healing wounds," and two other statements:

  • statement #4 in the description: "A lengthy healing time"
  • the article on Aphthous ulcer, which states that "Aphthous ulcers normally heal without treatment within 1–2 weeks"

Are there sources out there stating that ulcers are non-healing? Steve3003 18:36, 16 October 2006 (UTC)