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... > Surgical Procedures, Operative > Neurosurgical Procedures > Denervation > Autonomic Denervation > Parasympathectomy > Vagotomy > Vagotomy, Proximal Gastric

Preferred term

Vagotomy, Proximal Gastric  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Highly Selective Vagotomies
  • Highly Selective Vagotomy
  • Parietal Cell Vagotomies
  • Parietal Cell Vagotomy
  • Selective Vagotomies, Highly
  • Vagotomies, Highly Selective
  • Vagotomies, Parietal Cell
  • Vagotomy, Highly Selective
  • Vagotomy, Parietal Cell

Note

  • also called "hyperselective", "superselective", "supraselective", "ultraselective"

Scope note

  • Vagal denervation of that part of the STOMACH lined with acid-secreting mucosa (GASTRIC MUCOSA) containing the GASTRIC PARIETAL CELLS. Since the procedure leaves the vagal branches to the antrum and PYLORUS intact, it circumvents gastric drainage required with truncal vagotomy techniques.

History note

  • 86(81); was see under VAGOTOMY 1981-85

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D014629

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