Gastrojejunocolic fistula is a rare condition after gastrojejunostomy. It is severe complications of gastrojejunostomy, which results an inadequate resection or incomplete vagotomy during peptic ulcer surgery. The symptoms are diarrhea, upper abdominal pain, bleeding, vomiting and weight loss. A 55-year-old man with chronic diarrhea and weight loss for 6 months visited Dankook University Hospit...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the utility of gastrojejunostomy for the palliation of gastric outlet obstruction in irresectable or incurable gastric carcinoma. METHODS This is a retrospective review of 67 patients who underwent a gastrojejunostomy for gastric outlet obstruction caused by gastric carcinoma between 1 January 1996 and 31 May 2003. RESULTS There were 19 complications after surgery, ...

BACKGROUND Either palliative distal gastrectomy or gastrojejunostomy are the initial treatment options for locally advanced gastric cancer with outlet obstruction when curative-intent resection is not feasible. Since chemotherapy is the mainstay for unresectable gastric cancer, the clinical value of palliative distal gastrectomy is controversial. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed the clinic...

A 48-year-old gentleman presented with abdominal pain for 1 year. He had undergone an abdominal surgery for recurrent abdominal pain 10 years back, details of which were not available. Clinical examination, blood chemistries and ultrasound were normal. He underwent esophagogastroduodenoscopy for evaluation of abdominal pain. Endoscopic examination revealed evidence of gastrojejunostomy with nor...

The incidence of pancreatic cancer is increased in patients who have undergone gastric surgery. An animal model is described in which pancreatic hyperplasia and adenoma formation developed within 56 weeks. The effects of a simple gastrojejunostomy were compared with those after a split gastrojejunostomy, in which the jejunum was transected and the two limbs implanted separately into the greater...

The results of elective truncal vagotomy and drainage in 547 duodenal ulcer patients are reported. Altogether, 204 patients were randomly allocated to pyloroplasty and 200 to gastrojejunostomy. In 101 patients gastrojejunostomy was electively chosen and in 42 patients the duodenum was opened to confirm the diagnosis. Operative mortality was 0.5%, the incidence of proved recurrent ulceration 3.3...

Enteral access is one of the most common procedures performed in abdominal and interventional radiology. The surgical anatomy of the postoperative stomach may, however, make enteral access challenging. This report describes a patient with a pancreaticoduodenectomy complicated by a gastrojejunostomy leak who underwent 2 unsuccessful transoral endoscopic nasojejunal tube placements and 2 failed p...

PURPOSE Intracorporeal anastomosis during laparoscopic gastrectomy is becoming increasingly prevalent. However, selection of the anastomosis method after laparoscopic distal gastrectomy is equivocal because of a lack of technical feasibility and safety. We compared intracorporeal gastroduodenostomy with gastrojejunostomy using linear staplers to evaluate the technical feasibility and safety of ...

INTRODUCTION Intraluminal staplers for gastrojejunostomy construction during Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGBP) may be associated with postoperative strictures. We analyzed outcomes of a transabdominal circular-stapled RYGBP with evaluation of short- and long-term anastomotic complications. METHODS All laparoscopic RYGBPs performed between January 2004 and December 2005 at an academic instituti...

After the advent of the concept of laparoscopic assisted distal gastrectomy (LADG), the digestive reconstruction poses arguments among surgeons. There are three major different ways including Billroth I gastroduodenostomy, Billroth II gastrojejunostomy and Roux-en-Y gastrojejunostomy, and each of them has its own trick. In this article, the technical tips and pitfalls of each reconstruction wil...