title: [Truncal vagotomy in duodenal ulcer (author's transl)].
abstract: Since 1961, the authors have treated 369 patients for a duodenal ulcer. Emergency operation was performed in 69 cases (mortality: 7.2 percent) and elective operation in 300 (mortality: 0.86 percent. Procedures associated truncal vagotomy to hemigastrectomy (257 cases), to pyloroplasty (85 cases) or to gastroenterostomy (27 cases). Three hundred and thirty-nine patients were followed for an average of 8 years. The authors preferred truncal vagotomy associated to hemigastrectomy. This yielded excellent long term results (Visick I) in 89 percent of cases (221 out of 246 reviewed cases), with a very low mortality rate (3 out of 257 or 1.2%) and without known recurrence. (Acta chir. belg., 1976, 75, 294-305).
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004381:Duodenal Ulcer / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D004630:Emergencies; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D005743:Gastrectomy; D005763:Gastroenterostomy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011706:Pyloric Antrum / Q000601:surgery; D012008:Recurrence; D014628:Vagotomy / Q000379:methods* / Q000401:mortality
vernacular_title: La vagotomie tronculair dans l'ulcére duodénal