ALLMedicine™ Antrectomy Center

Aug 17th, 2021 - Gastric glomus tumor is a rare mesenchymal neoplasm. There are only a few cases of the tumor showing malignancy, and there are no specific guidelines for the management of this entity. We present the case of a 53-year-old Caucasian male who was ho...

Dec 8th, 2020 - Mortality for perforated peptic ulcer (PPU) surgery ranges from 2-22% with morbidity ranging from 15-45%. Traditionally, these had been repaired with vagotomy and antrectomy or pyloroplasty with smaller perforations repaired with an omentoplasty. ...

Nov 11th, 2019 - Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) restricts gastric volume to achieve weight loss. We aimed to compare the efficacy of LSG with and without antrectomy for achieving weight loss. The prospective randomized study comprised 127 obese patients tha...

Jun 7th, 2019 - Postsurgical gastric dysfunction is common, but the mechanisms are varied and poorly understood. The pylorus normally acts as an electrical barrier isolating gastric and intestinal slow waves. In this report, we present an aberrant electrical cond...

INTRODUCTION — Gastric polyps are usually found incidentally on upper gastrointestinal endoscopy performed for an unrelated indication and only in rare cases do they cause symptoms. Nevertheless, the diagnosis and appropriate management of gastric...

Dec 18th, 2018 - Most things have a beginning, a middle, and an end. In the clinic, every visit starts with a chief complaint, then has a set of assessments in the middle and a decision about what to do for each problem at its conclusion. Similarly, the physician'...

Apr 4th, 2016 - We've Come So Far, and Yet... Diabetes was transformed from a malignant disease to a chronic disorder just over 90 years ago when insulin became available. Antrectomy with vagotomy for ulcer—which I scrubbed in on as a surgical rotation student—ha...