[Gastric ulcer: conservative surgical treatment in 100 patients (author's transl)]

One hundred patients with gastric ulcer underwent surgery without gastric mutilation by a technique initially directed against stasis by pyloroplasty, vagotomy and, according to the site of the ulcer, its limited resection or biopsy. In half of the cases, the indication was that of the development of a complication. Eight patients died, 6 of them from amongst the 44 haemorrhagic ulcers. Two deaths were favourised by a complication specific to the procedure used. 86% of the patients followed up had an excellent or good result. Six recurrences of ulcers were seen, including two which again recurred after gastrectomy. Morbidity and mortality, in particular in the case of bleeding, appear to be less after vagotomy than after gastrectomy. The long term results in terms of ulcer disease of the two methods are similar.