Chemical Gastric Bezoar Development after Gastrectomy by Gastrografin

Gastric mucosa after partial gastrectomy.

A partial gastrectomy of Billroth I or II type was performed in a series of 146 patients with peptic ulcer. Gastric biopsy was carried out two years later and the histology of the specimens compared with that of the body mucosa at the time of operation. In 138 patients without body atrophic gastritis (AG) before operation this condition was found in 74 (54%) two years after (46% of DU patient...

Gastric stump cancer after gastrectomy by gastroduodenal peptic ulcer

Gastric stump cancer was first reported as a disease entity by Balfour in 19221,6. It was defined initially as cancer that arises in the remnant stomach after five years of gastrectomy for benign disease such as peptic ulcer1,6,8. Another opinion includes ten-year latency period after primary operation for benign or malignant disease. Cancer recurrence in the stump after ten years of gastrectom...

Laparoscopic Treatment of Gastric Bezoar

A seventeen-year-old female presented with a symptomatic abdominal mass that was diagnosed by barium meal and computed tomography to be a gastric bezoar. She underwent laparoscopic removal of the bezoar, through an anterior wall gastrostomy in an endobag, which was extracted piecemeal through a 4-cm upper midline incision. The technique is described with a review of a few previous laparoscopic-...

Gastric Emptying after Sleeve Gastrectomy for

Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy is a relatively quick and straightforward procedure that offers high weight loss with few complications. Amongst the bariatric procedures, however, it has been reported that LSG has a higher incidence of gastroesophageal reflux which leads to poorer quality of life and increased risk of gastro-esophageal cancers. The proposed mechanisms behind this are many inclu...

Gastric intrinsic factor secretion after partial gastrectomy.