Operation on Billroth-I in gastric cancer surgery: the evolution of views
In recent years almost all over the world, there is a decrease in the incidence of gastric cancer. Despite that carcinoma of the stomach annually affects on our planet about 1 million people. The prevalence of distal gastric cancer has a tendency to decrease, while the frequency of proximal cancer increases slightly. Early gastric cancer is only 10% of all new cases, and in 64,2% of patients are diagnosed at stages III-IV disease. Over the last 35 years, there has been substantial progress in the diagnosis and treatment of gastric cancer. Surgery that involves complete removal of the tumor remains the only method which gives hope for cure of the patient, despite the significant number of combined and complex treatment methods of this disease. However, many provisions of this concept have changed drastically. After surgery Billroth-I much less frequently and with less severity (than after resection Billroth-II) develops duodenogastric reflux in the absence of duodenostasis and adequate patency of the digestive tract. It is the reflux of bile and pancreatic juice plays an important role in the occurrence of cancer of the stomach stump. The basic cause of cancer is the development of atrophic gastritis as a consequence of denervation of the authority and the reflux of bile into the resected stomach. The choice of the method of restoring the integrity of digestive tract after distal gastrectomy is a topical problem, given the continuous increase in the number of patients undergoing this operation. In the review of literature shows that intervention in the modification of the Billroth-I does not increase the number of postoperative complications, no differences in long-term results of surgical treatment of gastric cancer for two methods of restoring the continuity of the digestive tract after distal resection.