The result of a prospective trial of 40 patients with duodenal ulcer treated either by proximal gastric vagotomy (antrum innervated) or by selective vagotomy (antrum denervated) shows that they are ...

THIS report is concerned with the surgical care of gastric and duodenal ulcers in two small hospitals in New Hampshire. It covers a period of two and a half years, ending June 30, 1953 ...

Second, continuous suppression of gastric acid secretion should facilitate the rapid spread from antrum and cardia to ... coexist with a low prevalence of duodenal ulcer and gastric metaplasia ...

Although not as well standardized as gastric emptying (GE ... primarily antral trituration and propulsion of the meal into the duodenum. Future therapies may target the fundus and antrum differently.

Gastric outlet obstruction mechanically impedes the normal gastric emptying. It occurs in up to 2% of patients with chronic duodenal ulcer and more frequently in older age groups.1 Several factors ...

The remainder of the stomach is not removed, but is completely divided from the stomach pouch. The small intestine is divided just beyond the opening (duodenum) for the purpose of bringing it up and ...

and distal stomach (antrum and pylorus) were achieved. Views of the oesophagus (4.3±1.3) and proximal stomach (cardia, 4.9±0.2; fundus 4.8±0.3) were also good. Duodenal images were not assessed ...