TY - JOUR T1 - Choice of gastric drainage procedures. A1 - Cohen,M M, PY - 1975/9/1/pubmed PY - 1975/9/1/medline PY - 1975/9/1/entrez SP - 414 EP - 9 JF - Canadian journal of surgery. Journal canadien de chirurgie JO - Can J Surg VL - 18 IS - 5 N2 - The need for drainage after truncal or selective vagotomy is well accepted, but there is no agreement on the most suitable type of drainage procedure. A review of the literature, particularly of papers published in the last 3 years, suggests that whereas vagotomy with gastroenterostomy is followed by a relatively high incidence of bile vomiting, vagotomy with pyloroplasty carries a significantly higher risk of recurrent ulceration. The surgeon, therefore, should not hesitate to perform gastroenterostomy if the pyloroduodenum is severely scarred. As pyloroplasty is irreversible, gastroenterostomy is probably the drainage procedure of choice. SN - 0008-428X UR - https://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/1100215/Choice_of_gastric_drainage_procedures_ DB - PRIME DP - Unbound Medicine ER -