Subdiaphragmatic vagotomy caused chronic gastric distension and hypertrophy, and a
reduction in voluntary food intake in rats fed a pelleted stock diet. These effects were …

Results All four dogs remained in good health throughout the period of study, and weight
loss was minimal. Results of the tests for completeness of gastric vagotomy are presented in …

THE operation of vagotomy, reintroduced by Dragstedt in 1945, has for some time now been
accepted as a form of treatment for duodenal ulcer (Slaney, Bevan, and Brooke, 1956; Holt …

To determine if the decreased water intake of abdominal vagotomized rats in the presence
and absence of food could be localized to a specific branch of the abdominal vagus, we …

tive gastric vagotomy (SGV) involves the cutting of the anterior and posterior gastric nerves,
leaving intact the posterior trunk with its coeliac branch and the anterior trunk with its hepatic …

After truncal vagotomy, impaired gastric emptying may represent a serious complication.
This led us to study the feasibility of a reinnervation of the antrum by microsurgical …

A new test of completeness of vagotomy based upon the evaluation of p H variations in the
stomach is presented. The test is performed during the operation through a minimal …

The effects of varying the extent of vagotomy on the myoelectrical and motor activity of the
stomach have been successfully studied in 21 patients undergoing either truncal, selective …

Vagotomy was originally introduced in the treatment of duodenal ulcer as a method for
abolishing the neurogenic hypersecretion of gastric juice characteristic of this disease. 1 The …

Various laboratory procedures for the evaluation of gastric function as an index of the
completeness of vagotomy were reviewed. The Hollander test is presently the only method …