A prospective study of intraoperative histologic antrum and corpus boundary in patients undergoing highly selective vagotomy for duodenal ulcer
Braghetto, I.; Lazo, M.; Leiva, V.; Rebolledo, P.; Gallardo, I.; Csendes, A.; Bardavid, A.; Diaz, A.; Bahamonde, A.
Surgery Gynecology and Obstetrics 164(3): 213-218
1987
ISSN/ISBN: 0039-6087 PMID: 3824110 Document Number: 290039
The results of the present study demonstrate that, at the level of the proximal branch of Crow's foot of Latarjet, parietal cells are found, and therefore, it must be sectioned when performing highly selective vagotomy. At the level of the distal branch, antral mucosa is found. At the level of the middle branch, in almost one-half of the instances, parietal cells are found, and its section must be evaluated with gastric emptying studies.