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Summary
Hemorrhagic changes, less often erosions, in the gastric mucosa were found in a number of rats submitted to blunt impacts on the head, single or repeated, of different intensities and according to different mechanisms. A certain correlation was seen between the severity of the trauma, correspondingly of the cerebral damage, and the occurrence of the gastric changes, which, when the acute effects of the trauma were survived, showed a tendency towards prompt and complete healing.
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