Gastrectomy Abdominal

Gastrectomy (abdominal) is a surgical operation to remove all or most of the stomach. This is a serious operation that is performed in cases of massive bleeding from the stomach, diffuse ulcers of the stomach and duodenum, malignant tumors of the stomach, penetration of a stomach ulcer into the diaphragm (especially with high esophago-pericardial growth), as well as total gastritis and severe gastroduodenitis, accompanied by bleeding. - **Several types of gastrectomy are performed**. Thus, there are upper, lower, marginal and total gastrectomies - it depends on which part of the organ is to be removed. In addition, there is gastrectomy through a median laparotomy or laparoscopic method.

- Gastrectomy - surgical removal of part of the stomach (as a rule, absolutely, but in some clinical cases only its body, isthmus or cardiac fundus can be removed). If a person is diagnosed with a malignant tumor of the stomach of stage I-II, then instead of a gastrectoma, a gastrectomy - partial removal - may be prescribed. If diseases with deep germination of malignant cells into the wall of the stomach are detected, a gastrectoma is performed. Stomach cancer is the main cause of death among all pathologies of the oncological spectrum.