A singular association of neurinoma of the abdominal vagus with relapsing peptic ulcer is reported. The singularity lies in the exceptional finding of a neurinoma of the left abdominal vagus –- not previously recorded in the literature –- and in the concomitant severe relapsing peptic ulcer, for which the nerve lesion may have been partly responsible.
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