Dumping Syndrome

Abstract

TN recent years subtotal gastrectomy has, for the majority of surgeons, come to be accepted as the surgical treatment of choice for peptic ulceration of the stomach and duodenum. In addition, with the improvement in over-all surgical mortality more patients are surviving after attacks on malignant lesions of the upper gastrointestinal tract, the procedures for such lesions usually being subtotal or total gastrectomy. Thus, more attention has come to be focused on the postgastrectomy patient, and when evaluating such patients, the surgeon often has cause to be dissatisfied with the so-called "side effects" of his treatment. Among the disturbing symptom . . .