METHOD It was not possible to use a continuous aspiration technique because, in order to
determine the antral response, it was necessary that the antrum should be stimulated by a …

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 …

The introduction of vagotomy as treatment for peptic ulcer disease by Jaboulay in 1899 by
far antidates the efforts of surgeons to uncover a reliable test for completeness of vagotomy …

One of the main objectives of the introduction of highly selective vagotomy without
pyloroplasty in the treatment of duodenal ulceration has been to avoid the alteration in …

The gastric acid response to insulin hypoglycemia represents an effect of several stimulatory
and inhibitory mechanisms. In the intact stomach the direct vagal excitation of the acid …

In order to assess the result of vagotomy an insulin test is usually performed postoperatively.
The insulin test, however, is associated with troublesome side-effects and potentially …

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

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 …

To assess the effectiveness of selective proximal vagotomy (SPV) in reducing the acid
response to food, we have compared pre-and postoperative gastric acid and serum gastrin …

One hundred dumping provocation tests were performed on patients who had had proximal
gastric vagotomy without drainage in the pre-and postoperative period. Other than …