[Mucosal antrectomy with truncal vagotomy in duodenal ulcer resection to exclude the pylorus)]

The duodenal ulcers with which the surgeon is confronted increasingly take on tumoural postbulbar forms, penetrating in the pancreas or liver pedicle. Such a duodenal stump can neither be anastomized to the residual stomach ulcer inversed safely. Therefore it has become increasingly necessary to find a tight inversion method. One of the authors (D. Gavriliu) updated mucous antrectomy + truncular vagotomy and Reichel-Polya gastrectomy, which leaves an adequate seromuscular cuff for a double closing suture of the duodenum; after ablation of the antral mucosa the patient benefits by a veritable humoral antrectomy. In point of fact the operation is increasingly applied (truncular vagotomy + antrectomy and Reichel-Polya gastrectomy), with the difference however that antrectomy only removes the mucosa, and the advantage of ensuring perfect closure of the duodenal stump.