By incision of the pyloric muscle and “plastic” reconstruction of the pyloric channel, pyloroplasty facilitates gastric emptying when the gastric outlet is obstructed either mechanically by ulcer, stenosis, or hypertrophy, or functionally by antropyloric vagotomy. First described by Heineke in 1886 and by Mikulicz in 1888, the Heineke-Mikulicz technique is still considered the principal pylorop...