The goal of elective operation for peptic ulcer disease is safe and effective elimination of the
peptic ulcer diathesis without causing adverse side effects. The history of ulcer surgery …

Our surgical group at Vanderbilt University has been greatly interested in the development
of optimal methods of surgical treatment of duodenal ulcer disease. Throughout the United …

The reintroduction of truncal vagotomy by Dragstedt and Owens1 in 1943 inaugurated the"
physiological" era of surgery for duodenal ulcer. Previous surgical approaches to ulcer had …

NINE YEARS HAVE passed since vagotomy was re-introduced by Dragstedt and Owens6 in
the treatment of duodenal ulcer. Cumulative evidence during the past few years has clearly …

WHEN ONE applies gastric resection or the Dragstedt operation to the surgical treatment of
patients with ulcer disease, it must inevitably be concluded that vagotomy has objective …

DUODENAL ULCERATION is becoming an increasing economic problem. Not only does the
rising stress of modern life lead to an increasing incidence of peptic ulcer, particularly in …

Complete vagotomy was introduced as a main surgical treatment for peptic ulcer by
Dragstedt and Owens 1 in 1943. It has been tried since by our group, 2 by Moore and his …

Peptic ulcers in man and experimental peptic ulcers in animals are all caused by an
increase in the corrosive properties of the gastric content of sufficient degree to break down …

In all aspects of the surgical treatment of peptic ulcer the trend, in the past decade, has been
to substitute vagotomy and a drainage procedure for gastric resection. When considering …

EVALUATION OF VAGOTOMY, usually com-bined with gastro-enterostomy, began in June,
1944, and is continuing. Our last re-ports6'7 acknowledged the original studies of Dragstedt …