Gastrojejunostomy

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Palliation of unresectable gastric carcinoma by conventional gastrojejunostomy is associated with significant morbidity and mortality.
Symptoms of nausea and vomiting have been traditionally palliated by surgery although surgical gastrojejunostomy is associated with significant morbidity and mortality.
CONCLUSION: Roux-en-y HDJS combined with prophylactic gastrojejunostomy is recommended for patients with intermediateterminal pancreatic cancer, and biliary prosthesis can partly relieve biliary obstruction in a short term.
Conclusion: The antrectomy and Roux-en-Y gastrojejunostomy is a better known operation, easily executed, and has the advantage that it can be performed on patients previously operated on for gastric resection and therefore suffering from secondary reflux.
An antecolic side-to-side gastrojejunostomy is made on the great curvature of the most dependent portion of the stomach.

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