Authors: RALPH F BOWERS CHARLES G STOCKARD
Publish Date: 1966/01/01
Volume: 92, Issue: 1, Pages: 39-43
Abstract
SOME OF THE curses attending the use of surgery for control of peptic ulcer are the postoperative physiological disturbances produced by the procedure Following resection the term postgastrectomy syndrome has evolved This includes all distresses in addition to the dumping syndrome Bowers and West1 established a low incidence of dumping or other disagreeable findings following gastroenterostomy regardless of whether or not vagotomy accompanied it The incidence of dumping syndrome was found to be 15 The high incidence of dumping and other unfavorable symptoms after gastric resection is amply documented and is well known the incidence varying from 25 to 60 Severe dumping was noted in 5 to 10 However these postoperative sequelae doomed gastric resection as a satisfactory procedure in spite of its ability to control the ulcer well recurrence rate around 2 For instance when the ulcer patient has a resection done for intractability the postgastrectomy syndrome even
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