ALLMedicine™ Antrectomy Center

Dec 23rd, 2021 - Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (SG) has been proven safe and effective in achieving weight loss. However, the distance from the pylorus where resection should begin has been debated. To compare the clinical outcomes of laparoscopic SG with antrum...

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...

Aug 11th, 2021 - Background Omental patching began in 1937, when Roscoe Reid Graham of Toronto reported 51 cases of perforated peptic ulcer successfully treated with an omental patch.[1] In Graham’s initial cases, he concluded that routine gastroenterostomy was un...

May 10th, 2021 - Background Gastrectomy is defined as partial when a part of the stomach is removed surgically and as total when the entire stomach is removed. Some authors further differentiate various types of partial gastrectomy on the basis of the amount of st...

Mar 24th, 2021 - Background Antrectomy (distal gastrectomy) is a procedure in which the distal third of the stomach (the gastric or pyloric antrum) is excised. Gastrectomies are further defined by the type of reconstruction used to reestablish gastrointestinal (GI...

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'...

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...