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Postvagotomy dysphagia is a mostly only transient dysphagia beginning between the 7th and 14th days after vagotomy. The degree of the dysphagia can vary considerably and extremely rarely may even reach complete aphagia.
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Becker, H.D., Caspary, W.F. (1980). Postvagotomy Dysphagia. In: Postgastrectomy and Postvagotomy Syndromes. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67350-4_22
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