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    Antrectomy, also called distal gastrectomy, is a type of gastric resection surgery that involves the removal of the stomach antrum to treat gastric diseases...
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    of excision of part of the lower stomach, also called antrectomy, is another option. Antrectomy is "the resection, or surgical removal, of a part of the...
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    rates of 76% after repeat dilatons. The operation usually performed is an antrectomy, the removal of the antral portion of the stomach. Other surgical approaches...
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    (laparoscopy). For the management of PUD, vagotomy is sometimes combined with antrectomy (removal of the distal half of the stomach) to reduce the rate of recurrence...
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    surgery involving the stomach and duodenum (most commonly with Billroth II antrectomy), a blind loop may be formed, leading to stasis of flow of intestinal...
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    Alternative procedures to pyloroplasty include gastrojejunostomy and antrectomy. "Pyloroplasty." Pennmedicine.org. Penn Medicine, 25 Oct. 2014. Web. 5...
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    to the papilla in patients with long afferent limbs after Billroth II antrectomy. The key disadvantage of double-balloon enteroscopy is the time required...
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  • 1990 Laparoscopic Gastroenterostomy, 1991 Laparoscopic Truncal Vagotomy, Antrectomy, and Billroth II, 1991 Laparoscopic Resection of Benign Submucosal Gastric...
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