Comparative study between proximal gastric vagotomy and truncal vagotomy with drainage in treatment of gastric ulcer

ABSTRACT

Truncal vagotomy with drainage operation [TV+D] takes the upper hand in its results over the proximal gastric vagotomy without drainage operation [PGV]. The comparison had been done between 23 patients of both groups with follow up 5 years later after the operations. The complications of the first technique [TV+D] is significantly very low with high rate of cure