By a statistical study using the Kay augmented histamine test it has been shown that performing a gastrojejunostomy has no fundamental effect on gastric secretion and that the post-operative differences are due entirely to reflux and/or loss through the stoma.

Primary gastric lymphoma is a rare tumour. It is thought that low grade gastric mucosa associated lymphoid tissue lymphoma has not been previously reported to occur in a patient with gastrojejunostomy. This report describes such a case. The patient presented with bleeding from non-healing stomal ulcers. The ulcers healed and there was regression of the tumour after eradication of Helicobacter p...

Gastrointestinal stromal tumours (GIST) are rare mesenchymal tumours, comprising 1% of all GI malignancies. This is a report of a middle-aged man diagnosed with GIST of the duodenum. He had gastrojejunostomy and para-aortic lymph node biopsy for histology. He was subsequently commenced on 5-fluorouracil but with little response.

Although the majority of circulating ghrelin originates from the stomach, no prospective study of the proportion of ghrelin derived from the stomach has been reported. Patients with early gastric cancer who underwent gastric resection were divided into three groups according to the extent and site of gastric resection: subtotal gastrectomy group (n = 24), proximal gastrectomy group (n = 4), and...

BACKGROUND The Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGBP) is one of the most common operations for morbid obesity. Laparoscopic techniques have been reported, but suffer from small numbers of patients, longer operative times and seemingly higher initial complication rates as compared to the traditional "open" procedure. The minimally invasive approach continues to be a challenge even to the most experien...