Vagotomy for peptic ulcer.

Vagotomy and peptic ulcer.

SIR,-A man aged 40 was admitted in July 1967 with a reducible right inguinal hernia and an undescended left testis. The right testis, normal in size and consistency, was present in the scrotum. Exploration of the right inguinal canal revealed a completely patent processus vaginalis with the testis inside the sac. On applying traction to the testis, an oval mass, apparently intra-abdominal, was ...

Peptic Ulcer Disease and Thoracoscopic Left Truncal Vagotomy

BACKGROUND This study illustrates our experience in treating duodenal ulcer by means of thoracoscopy and laparoscopy over a period of six years. MATERIALS AND METHODS From October 1991 to October 1998, we submitted 38 patients (31 males and 7 females), average age 51 years (range 22-78 years), with duodenal ulcer to vagotomy with minimally invasive access: 23 Hill-Barkers, 2 Taylors, 9 thorac...

Gastric intestinal metaplasia eleven years after randomized selective proximal vagotomy for peptic ulcer.

The presence of intestinal metaplasia (IM) 11 years after selective proximal vagotomy (SPV), selective proximal vagotomy with pyloroplasty (SPV + PP) and selective vagotomy with pyloroplasty (SV + PP) was investigated in 38 consecutive patients. IM was significantly more frequent in SPV than in SV + PP, SPV + PP or in unoperated controls of matching ages. IM occurred more frequently both at an ...

Transgastric vagotomy with selective proximal vagotomy for duodenal ulcer.

To improve surgical results of duodenal ulcer, transgastric myotomy (TGM) was added to the traditional selective proximal vagotomy (SPV) and its efficacy was evaluated clinically in 40 patients. 35 men and 5 women were involved, with a mean age of 33.07 +/- 14.25 years. Pyloroplasty was added in 12 operations for stenosis and perforation. 28 patients in this series underwent TGM with SPV withou...

Peptic Ulcer