PARTIAL GASTRECTOMY FOR GASTRIC ULCER RECURRING AFTER GASTROJEJUNOSTOMY.

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...

Partial Gastrectomy for Peptic Ulcer.

This paper reports a study of 955 patients in whom partial gastrectomy was performed for peptic ulcer. An analysis is presented of the clinical and operative factors which may influence the success of the operation.

Gastric intrinsic factor secretion after partial gastrectomy.

Vagotomy or gastrectomy for gastric ulcer.

Patients treated in a randomized controlled comparison of management of benign gastric ulcer of the body of the stomach, comprising 50 patients treated by Billroth I partial gastrectomy and 50 patients treated by vagotomy and pyloroplasty and biopsy of the ulcer, were followed up for about five years (range one and a half to eight and a half years). No statistically significant difference has b...

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...