Gastric Cancer after Vagotomy and Excision for Gastric Ulcer
- 1 January 1981
- journal article
- Published by S. Karger AG in European Surgical Research
- Vol. 13 (5) , 371-375
- https://doi.org/10.1159/000128204
Abstract
A follow-up examination of 152 patients with gastric ulcer treated with vagotomy, ulcerectomy and drainage showed that 4 of the patients manifested gastric cancer 5–7 years after the operation. A simultaneous follow-up of a parallel series of 269 patients with duodenal or pyloric ulcer treated with vagotomy and drainage in the same surgical unit did not reveal a single case of gastric cancer development. The observations seem to indicate that there is a greater risk of cancer development in the ulcerectomized and vagotomized stomach.Keywords
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