title: [Thoracoscopic truncal vagotomy].
abstract: Abdominal re-operation in patients with recurrent peptic ulcer disease is associated with a high morbidity rate and a mortality rate of 5%. As an alternative procedure, therefore, transthoracic truncal vagotomy was early recommended as a less invasive intervention, and good results can be achieved with it. With the development of minimal invasive surgery, this procedure can now be performed via thoracoscopy and patient stress thus reduced even further. Via a left-sided thoracoscopy, the parietal pleura is incised and a 3-5 cm long segment of the distal oesophagus mobilised and dissected free. Both the posterior and anterior trunks of the vagus nerves are identified and, after applying clips, transected. In order to achieve complete vagotomy, further fine branches have to be searched out and, if found, also divided.
authors.affiliation: Chirurgische Klinik mit Poliklinik, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Reck
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Köckerling
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Schneider
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Hohenberger
mesh_terms: D019723:Endoscopes; D006801:Humans; D019060:Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures; D009873:Operating Rooms; D010348:Patient Care Team; D010437:Peptic Ulcer / Q000601:surgery*; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000601:surgery*; D012086:Reoperation; D013523:Surgical Equipment; D013525:Surgical Instruments; D020708:Thoracoscopes; D015167:Vagotomy, Truncal / Q000295:instrumentation*; D014741:Video Recording / Q000295:instrumentation