| Interference with the esophageal hiatus during surgical procedures such as vagotomy may predispose to reflux esophagitis. |
| Postsurgical gastroparesis is most often a consequence of peptic ulcer surgery with concurrent performance of vagotomy. |
| All gastric operations involving vagotomy included the breach of the pylorus, usually by pyloroplasty. |
| In addition to Crohn's disease, the syndrome has occurred in two patients with Meckel's diverticulum and two individuals who had had a vagotomy. |
| Antibiotics have made cardiac valve surgery for rheumatic fever a bygone and the hemigastrectomy and vagotomy for duodenal ulcer a rarity. |
| The patient underwent an exploratory laparotomy, resection of the gastric mass, pyloroplasty, truncal vagotomy, and cyst duodenostomy. |
