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Descriptor English: Vagotomy, Truncal
Descriptor Spanish: Vagotomía Troncal
Descriptor vagotomía troncal
Scope note: Disección bilateral de las ramas abdominales del nervio vago. Se practica frecuentemente en el tratamiento quirúrgico de las úlceras gástricas y duodenales, así como en estudios fisiológicos de la secreción y motilidad gastrointestinal.
Descriptor Portuguese: Vagotomia Troncular
Descriptor French: Vagotomie tronculaire
Entry term(s): Truncal Vagotomies
Truncal Vagotomy
Vagotomies, Truncal
Tree number(s): E04.525.210.105.600.850.860
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D015167
Scope note: Bilateral dissection of the abdominal branches of the vagus nerve. It is used frequently in the surgical management of duodenal and gastric ulcers, as well as in physiologic studies of gastrointestinal secretion and motility.
Allowable Qualifiers: AE adverse effects
CL classification
EC economics
ED education
ES ethics
HI history
IS instrumentation
LJ legislation & jurisprudence
MO mortality
MT methods
NU nursing
PX psychology
RH rehabilitation
SN statistics & numerical data
ST standards
TD trends
VE veterinary
Previous Indexing: Vagotomy (1966-1988)
Public MeSH Note: 89
History Note: 89
DeCS ID: 23854
Unique ID: D015167
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Date Established: 1989/01/01
Date of Entry: 1988/04/08
Revision Date: 2017/07/05
Vagotomy, Truncal - Preferred
Concept UI M0023308
Scope note Bilateral dissection of the abdominal branches of the vagus nerve. It is used frequently in the surgical management of duodenal and gastric ulcers, as well as in physiologic studies of gastrointestinal secretion and motility.
Preferred term Vagotomy, Truncal
Entry term(s) Truncal Vagotomies
Truncal Vagotomy
Vagotomies, Truncal



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