Long term follow-up of patients with gastric ulcers treated by vagotomy, pyloroplasty and ulcerectomy.

Vagotomy and pyloroplasty with excision of the ulcer has been performed in a series of 90 patients with benign gastric ulcers. Long term follow-up has shown only 2 patients with recurrent, ulceration . Fifty-eight patients with more than 2 years' follow-up attended for personal interview, of whom 96 per cent had a satisfactory result.