[Surgical treatment of postoperative peptic ulcer].
The literature on postoperative peptic ulcer is reviewed and cases observed in the Department of Surgical Anatomy and Operations Course of Turin University in the period 1-I-1968 - 31-III-1975 are presented. 183 operations for primary gastro-duodenal ulcer were carried out. A variety of techniques was employed, including 138 gastric resections using a modified Billroth II technique, with a recurrence of 1.3% encountered only in patients in the specified group. 15 reoperations for postoperative peptic ulcer were performed with the following result: very good in 7 cases, good in 6, and 2 postoperative deaths. The two deaths concerned a simple gastric reconversion and a gastric re-resection with gastro-jejuno-anastomosis. The personal series confirms the statistics presented by numerous foreign workers.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D005743:Gastrectomy; D005763:Gastroenterostomy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010437:Peptic Ulcer / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000601:surgery*; D012008:Recurrence; D014628:Vagotomy
Considerazioni sul trattamento chirurgico dell'ulcera peptica post-operatoria