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Highly selective vagotomy (HSV) is still regarded as ‘experimental’ in most centres in the United States, on the ground that follow-up is too short and incidences of recurrent ulceration too high. In fact, HSV has been used extensively in Europe for 15 years, long-term results are available, and, as I will show, incidences of recurrence of 1–5% at 5 years’ follow-up are quite common, when appropriate surgical expertise is available and some form of quality control is employed.
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© 1985 Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Dordrecht
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Johnston, D. (1985). Long term results of highly selective vagotomy for duodenal ulcer and gastric ulcer. In: Nelis, G.F., Boevé, J., Misiewics, J.J. (eds) Peptic Ulcer Disease: Basic and Clinical Aspects. Developments in Gastroenterology, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5034-4_17
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