The American Journal of Digestive Diseases

, Volume 6, Issue 3, pp 206–207 | Cite as

The proposed phenolphthalein test for determining the presence of gastrointestinal lesions. Results in ninety-four cases.

  • Frederick Daniel Suttenfield
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Summary

  1. 1.

    The proposed phenolphthalein test for determining the presence of a break in the continuity of the gastro-intestinal mucous membrane was studied in ninety-four patients hospitalized for diagnostic study and treatment.

     
  2. 2.

    In the series reported, the test was repeated in several cases making the total number of tests over one hundred and twenty, and the total number of examinations over two hundred.

     
  3. 3.

    The high accuracy of the test could not be verified.

     
  4. 4.

    The percentage of positives (21.1) in the entire series of cases corresponds very closely to that (21.5) reported by Fantus and Dyniewicz (2) in their series of 150 hospital cases at the Cook County Hospital, in which phenolphthalein was used for another purpose.

     

Keywords

Herpes Zoster Esophageal Varix Phenolphthalein Chronic Ulcerative Colitis Hypertensive Heart Disease 
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References

  1. 1.
    Woldman, Edward E.: A Simple Test for Determining the Presence of Gastro-intestinal Lesions. (A Preliminary Report).Am. J. Dig. Dis., Vol. 5, No. 4, June, 1938.Google Scholar
  2. 2.
    Fantus, Bernard and Dyniewicz, J. M.: A Thousand Doses of Phenolphthalein.J. A. M. A., 108:439–443, Feb. 6, 1937.Google Scholar

Copyright information

© Springer-Verlag 1939

Authors and Affiliations

  • Frederick Daniel Suttenfield
    • 1
  1. 1.Georgetown University School of Medicine and the Gallinger Municipal HospitalWashington, D. C.

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