Elective surgery for peptic ulcer disease has diminished significantly over the past 15 years.
However, emergency surgery has not shown a decline. Some series have even reported an …

Experience with proximal gastric vagotomy without drainage in the treatment of 316 men
with duodenal ulcer is surveyed, with particular reference to the 117 who have been …

| T MIGHT BE ARGUED that surgical treatment for benign gastric and duodenal ulcers has
reached such a high degree of perfection that there is little room for improvement. The …

A prospective, randomized, study involving 92 patients who required elective operation for
treatment of duodenal ulcer was performed to compare the results of Parietal Cell Vagotomy …

Parietal cell vagotomy has been in clinical use for 7 years in elective treatment of
nonobstructive duodenal ulcer, and for even a shorter period for complicated cases and for …

A consecutive series of 100 men with uncomplicated duodenal ulcer was randomly divided
into two groups: one group of 52 underwent proximal gastric vagotomy (PGV), the other …

An analysis is presented of the ulcer recurrence rate following parietal cell vagotomy in 333
patients with duodenal ulcer. The median period of observation for patients without ulcer …

In a review of randomized clinical trials (RCT's) in gastroenterology up to 1964, 1 Truelove
and Wright concluded that only one treatment was of proven value in duodenal ulcer …

Abstract The 1‐5‐year results of a prospective randomized trial of proximal gastric vagotomy
(PGV) with and without pyloroplasty in 64 men operated upon electively for chronic …

During the period December 1970 to August 1973, 99 patients with duodenal ulcer
underwent proximal gastric vagotomy without drainage, and 93 per cent of the patients were …