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proximal gastric vagotomy Vagal denervation of that part of the stomach lined with acid-secreting mucosa containing the gastric parietal cells. Since the procedure leaves the vagal branches to the antrum and pylorus intact, it circumvents gastric drainage required with truncal vagotomy techniques.


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(Parietal Cell Vagotomy)



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