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gastrectomy
Sign in to saveAlso known as gastric resection, subtotal gastrectomy, total gastrectomy, stomach removal
A gastrectomy is a partial or total surgical removal of the stomach.
Key facts
- Medical intervention.Name
- Gastrectomy
- Medical intervention.Image
- Illu stomach.jpg
- Medical intervention.Caption
- Diagram of the stomach, showing the different regions.
- Medical intervention.ICD9
- -
- Medical intervention.MeshID
- D005743
- Medical intervention.MedlinePlus
- 002945
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
61,175 papers- [Prophylactic gastrectomy].Bulletin du cancer · 2025
- Minimally Invasive Gastrectomy.The Surgical clinics of North America · 2025
- [Reconstruction following gastrectomy].Der Chirurg; Zeitschrift fur alle Gebiete der operativen Medizen · 2021
- Anastomotic Leakage after Gastrectomy for Gastric Cancer.Journal of gastrointestinal and liver diseases : JGLD · 2023
- Function-preserving gastrectomy for gastric cancer in Japan.World journal of gastroenterology · 2016
via PubMed
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- ectomy
- Image
- Illu stomach.jpg
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- Commons category
- Gastrectomy
- Commons gallery
- Gastrectomy
- has effect
- dumping syndrome
- anatomical location
- stomach
- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C15236
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Indications
- Polya's operation
- Post-operative effects
- History
- See also
- References
- External links
A gastrectomy is a partial or total surgical removal of the stomach.
==Indications==
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