Fibrin degradation products in hypoxic full-term neonates.

pared with 61% of vagotomy and drainage patients. In the gastrectomy group only 30% gained weight compared with 54% of the other group. In the vagotomy and drainage group the results were simili after either truncal or selective vagotomy and after either pyloroplasty or gastrojejunostomy. True dumping as distinct from small-stomach syndrome is rare in patints on a rice diet, and was seen less often in the vagotomy and pyloroplasty patients than after vagotomy and gastrojejunostomy or gastrectomy.-I am, etc., FRAN I. TovEY Basingptoke and District Hospital, Basinsstoke, Hants 1 Tovey, F. I., British Yournal of Surgery, 1969, 56, 281.