title: Prepyloric antrectomy, truncal vagotomy, and front pylorotomy for the treatment of duodenal ulcer.
abstract: We have performed a suprapyloric antrectomy with anterior pylorotomy and truncal vagotomy in 106 patients with chronic duodenal ulcer between 1975 and 1990. Follow-up was carried out in 94 patients, during a mean time of 6 years. We have had no postoperative mortality and no long-term recurrence. The percentage of Visick I patients is similar to that after truncal vagotomy and antrectomy. We, therefore, believe that this procedure is safe and can be performed when an antrectomy is mandatory to avoid the operative morbidity and mortality of classic antrectomy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Hospital de La Santa Cruz y San Pablo, Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Alonso
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Galera
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Reyes
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Puig La Calle
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Comes
authors.forename: X
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Rius
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lopez-Gibert
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004381:Duodenal Ulcer / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D005743:Gastrectomy; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011178:Postgastrectomy Syndromes / Q000453:epidemiology; D011706:Pyloric Antrum / Q000601:surgery; D011708:Pylorus / Q000601:surgery; D013270:Stomach / Q000601:surgery*; D015167:Vagotomy, Truncal