Long Term Follow-up of Patients with Gastric Ulcers Treated by Vagotomy, Pyloroplasty and Ulcerectomy

Overview

Journal Br J Surg

Specialty General Surgery

Date 1979 Jan 1

PMID 420971

Citations 4

Authors

D Cade

D Allan

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Abstract

Vagotomy and pyloroplasty with excision of the ulcer has been performed in a series of 90 patients with benign gastric ulcers. Long term follow-up has shown only 2 patients with recurrent, ulceration . Fifty-eight patients with more than 2 years' follow-up attended for personal interview, of whom 96 per cent had a satisfactory result.

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