Question 121 · LEK · Peptic ulcer disease
Surgical complications from gastric and duodenal ulcers have become less common in the last decade. What is the main cause of this phenomenon?
- A. use of truncal vagotomy.
- B. use of truncal vagotomy together with antrectomy.
- C. use of selective vagotomy.
- D. use of highly selective vagotomy.
- E. improved methods of conservative treatment.
Hint
Think of the drug class and the infectious cause, discovered in the 1980s, that transformed the management of ulcers.
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