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  • Title: Emergency vagotomy with a drainage procedure for perforated gastric and duodenal ulcer. Study of 73 cases.
    Author: Vardoulis J, Stenos J, Avgoustis A, Lefkidis Ch.
    Journal: Int Surg; 1975 Apr; 60(4):226-8. PubMed ID: 1123276.
    Abstract:
    Sixty-nine cases of duodenal ulcer perforation and four cases of stomach ulcer perforation are described. One half of the patients underwent vagotomy plus a drainage procedure and the other half had suture of the perforated ulcer. No death occurred in the first group, and hospitalization time was less than was less than that of the second group. Five deaths occurred in the second group.
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