Roentgenographic Studies of the Gastrointestinal Tract Following Section of the Vagus Nerves for Peptic Ulcer

Abstract

THERE is widespread interest in the surgical treatment of chronic, intractable peptic ulcer by section of the vagus nerves. Dragstedt and his co-workers¹ in Chicago were the first to employ the procedure systematically, and since their publication of the results of supradiaphragmatic vagus resection in 2 patients in 1943 they have reported progressively larger series of cases, which reached a total of 90 in 1946.^{1 , 2} Moore³ has recorded 40 cases. Grimson and Ruffin^{4 5 6} have discussed a series of 57 cases. Previous reports of the findings in transthoracic, bilateral vagus-nerve resection have described changes in size, shape, motility and emptying of . . .