Surgery of the Stomach

Contents: Topographic Anatomy of the Stomach and Duodenum.- Surgical Approaches and Drainage Methods.- Surgical Treatment of Positional Abnormalities.- Surgical Treatment of Gastric Injuries.- Gastrotomy, Gastroenterostomy, Gastrostomy, Local Excisions of the Gastric Wall, Diverticula.- Billroth I Resection.- Partial Gastrectomy with Billroth II Resection and Alternative Methods.- The Roux-en-Y and Other Anastomoses.- Gastrectomy.- Resection of the Cardia.- Gastric Reconstruction.- Palliative Procedures for Unresectable Gastric Carcinoma.- Highly Selective Vagotomy with Excision of the Ulcer for Gastric Ulceration.- Selective Proximal Vagotomy with Esophageal and Gastric Myotomy.- The Technique of Nonresective Ulcer Surgery.- Selective Gastric Vagotomy.- Thoracic Vagotomy.- Truncal Vagotomy.- Pyloric Drainage.- Anatomic Reconstruction of the Esophagogastric Junction.- Antireflux Operations.- Operations on the Stomach and Cardia for Esophageal Varices.- Gastric Procedures in Morbid Obesity.- Operations on the Duodenum (Excluding the Papilla of Vater).- Operative Treatment of Gastric and Duodenal Hemorrhage.- Operative Treatment of Perforations of the Stomach and Duodenum.- Operations on the Stomach and Duodenum in Children.- Remedial Operations on the Stomach.- Postoperative Complications and Postoperative Care.- Subject Index.