vagotomy
Sign in to saveA vagotomy is a surgical procedure that involves removing part of the vagus nerve. It is performed in the abdomen.
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- Vagotomy
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- Course and distribution of the glossopharyngeal, vagus, and accessory nerves.
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Research
19,272 papers- Vagotomy without diarrhoea.British medical journal · 1972
- Video- and Robotic-Assisted Thoracoscopic Truncal Vagotomy.The American surgeon · 2023
- Vagotomy and the incidence of rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis: a Danish register-based study.Arthritis research & therapy · 2025
- [Hyperselective vagotomy].Polski tygodnik lekarski (Warsaw, Poland : 1960) · 1974
- Vagotomy.Acta gastro-enterologica Belgica · 1948
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Types
- Applications
- Chronic duodenal ulcers
- Obesity
- History
- References
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A vagotomy is a surgical procedure that involves removing part of the vagus nerve. It is performed in the abdomen.
==Types== A plain vagotomy eliminates afferent and parasympathetic innervation of the stomach and the left side of the transverse colon. Other techniques focus on branches leading from the retroperitoneum to the stomach.
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