[The place of gastrectomy and the possibilities of prevention of post-gastrectomy disorders in the surgical treatment of gastric cancer].
Observation of 157 patients subjected to subtotal resection or gastrectomy for gastric cancer were performed. In 37 patients the duodenum was included in the process of digestion after gastrectomy with the help of T-shaped duplication of the small intestine and its partly isolated portion. This method was not followed in the early postoperative period by incompetence of the formed anastomoses, paresis of the displaced intestine; in the more remote period manifestations of the agastral asthemia became less and no reflux-esophagitis was observed. The investigation has shown that the relative value of gastrectomies with regard for the diagnosed recurrent carcinoma of the gastric stump must make up not less than 50% of the total amount of radical operations performed for this pathology of the stomach.