ABDOMINAL SURGERY PART II: Conservative Surgery for Peptic Ulcer

Indications for Conservative Surgery in Gastric Ulcer

“…This report is based on a consecutive series of patients operated on for reasons other than perforation or haemorrhage and indicates a poor response to vagotomy and pyloroplasty in cases of high gastric ulcer. Incomplete vagotomy is unlikely to have been a cause of recurrence as the excellent results achieved in cases of low gastric ulcer were matched by similar success in a concurrent series of duodenal ulcers (Qvist et al , 1969; Qvist and Fox, 1969). All patients with recurrent ulcers or troublesome symptoms were examined radiologically and in no case could antral retention due to inadequate pyloroplasty be incriminated as the cause of a poor result.…”