When an ulcer is located on the posterior wall of the stomach or duodenum, the pain can radiate to the back. This referred pain occurs due to the proximity of the ulcer to the spinal nerves ...

Together, stomach and duodenal ulcers are referred to as 'peptic' ulcers ... questioned the practice of drinking milk to relieve the pain of ulcers when they discovered that it actually increases ...

Indeed, in the presence of a history of periodic epigastric pain occurring in the early hours of the morning and relieved by milk or food, the clinical diagnosis of duodenal ulcer is frequently ...