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A review has been made of 59 patients with recurrent peptic ulceration after incomplete vagotomy. Eighteen transthoracic procedures were performed, the remainder having abdominal revagotomy. An antrectomy was also carried out in 10 of these patients. An intact posterior nerve trunk was the most common operative finding and when either an anterior trunk or nerve strands only were present there was less likely to be an early positive insulin response (P = 0.033). Following incomplete vagotomy a longer period of symptomatic relief is obtained when gastro-enterostomy rather than pyloroplasty is used as the drainage (P less than 0.01). Completing the vagotomy by the abdominal route gave superior results to transthoracic revagotomy (P = 0.0015), the former procedure without antrectomy having no associated mortality in this series. Although the results of revagotomy and antrectomy are as good as those of transabdominal revagotomy alone, we recommend the latter more conservative treatment for recurrent ulceration after incomplete vagotomy.
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