[The endoscopic diagnostic and therapeutic procedure in acute peptic hemorrhages from the upper gastrointestinal tract].

Bleeding gastroduodenal ulcers continue to be a common complication of diseases involving the upper segment of the gastrointestinal tract. In the last few years, with the introduction of fiber gastroscopy as a routine method of study, diagnosing of the underlying cause of hemorrhages is no longer a problem. A total of 959 emergency fibro-gastroduodenoscopies are performed.