Long term follow-up of patients with gastric ulcers treated by vagotomy, pyloroplasty and ulcerectomy.
Vagotomy and pyloroplasty with excision of the ulcer has been performed in a series of 90 patients with benign gastric ulcers. Long term follow-up has shown only 2 patients with recurrent, ulceration . Fifty-eight patients with more than 2 years' follow-up attended for personal interview, of whom 96 per cent had a satisfactory result.
D004381:Duodenal Ulcer / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008722:Methods; D008875:Middle Aged; D011708:Pylorus / Q000601:surgery*; D012008:Recurrence; D013276:Stomach Ulcer / Q000601:surgery*; D014628:Vagotomy