RESUMO
In 39 cases of re-interventions carried out after vagotomy (of which 31 were patients hospitalized in the Clinic and represent 8,6% of the total 358 vagotomies performed), the experience, the viewpoints and the recommendations of the authors are presented. Early re-interventions were necessayr because of complications which are common to abdominal surgery and only in a much lower degree to accidents that can be attributed to vagotomy or the associated intervention. Late re-interventions (26 cases) were necessary in 20 cases for ulcer recidives (13 for vagotomies performed in the Clinic and 7 for vagotomies performed in other units) while late-re-interventions for dumping syndrome, cholelythiasis, etc. represented only isolated cases in these statistics.
