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Original Articles

The Role of Surgery in Peptic Ulcer

Pages 391-401 | Published online: 06 Jul 2016
 

Abstract

Peptic ulcer is a psychosomatic disease, and there must be a distinct and definite indication for surgical treatment. Many patients need reorganization of their lives rather than of their stomachs. If a patient cannot talk himself out of it with the help of a psychiatrist, or eat his way out of it by diet, then the surgeon is called in. Whether the operative procedure should be a subdiaphragmatic vagotomy with a supplemental drainage operation, or an 80 per cent gastric resection, is still controversial, with the tendency away from vagotomy and toward resection.

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