Laparoscopic highly selective vagotomy incorporating a retrogastric approach.
We performed posterior and anterior highly selective vagotomy in six duodenal ulcer patients, using a retrogastric approach to the posterior gastric branches of the vagus nerve. The details of the procedure and the results obtained are described.
Kimura
T
T
Department of Surgery, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Japan.
Sakuramachi
S
S
Harada
Y
Y
D000328:Adult; D004381:Duodenal Ulcer / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010535:Laparoscopy / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014629:Vagotomy, Proximal Gastric / Q000379:methods*