Six hundred and seventy-six insulin tests performed in the early postoperative period after
vagotomy and drainage for duodenal ulcer were analysed by the criteria of Hollander …

MATERIALS AND METHODS Augmented histamine tests were performed in 157 duodenal
ulcer patients before and after non-selective vagotomy, 71 with gastrojejunostomy as the …

The Insulin Test After Vagotomy Page 1 THE INSULIN TEST AFTER VAGOTOMY BRYAN Ross,
MB, AND ANDREW W. KAY, MD, Oh.M., FROS The University Department of Surgery, The Royal …

Fifty-two patients underwent serial insulin tests in the 1st year after vagotomy. Although all
had given a negative insulin response by the Hollander criteria in the immediate …

Maximal acid output and insulin tests were carried out in a series of 56 consecutive patients
who had either a truncal or a bilateral selective vagotomy and drainage operation. The …

RESULTS An outline of the response to insulin and 2-DG is given in Table I. Thirty-seven
patients with chronic duodenal ulceration were studied after the operation of vagotomy and …

METHODS Testing of gastric acid secretion was by the routine method used in our
laboratory. Briefly, after an overnight fast a 16 FG duodenal tube with a metal tip was passed …

Insulin-stimulated gastric secretion alone, without reference to basal secretion, has been
examined in 45 male patients with duodenal ulcer in whom no gastric operation had been …

In the present series, highly selective vagotomy (HSV) was used in the treatment of
duodenal ulcer and the patients were followed up 1 to 3 years after operation. Three months …

When treating duodenal ulcer by vagotomy surgeons aim at dividing all the vagal secreto-
motor fibres to the stomach. In order to assess whether this aim had been achieved …