[Our experience with the surgical treatment of complicated duodenal ulcer using truncal vagotomy]

Personal ten-year-long surgical and clinical experience with the application of truncal vagotomy in 51 patients with complicated duodenal ulcers-23 with hemorrhage, 19 with perforation and nine with stenosis, is shared. Emphasis is laid on the superiorities and comparatively low lethality (5.8 per cent) of the application of this type of vagotomy during the surgical management of complicated duodenal ulcers, as well as on the great diagnostic relevance of fiber gastroscopy applied on the apex of hemorrhage in case of bleeding duodenal ulcers.