2022年6月21日 · A vagotomy is a deliberate interruption of the signals carried by your vagus nerve. This is the nerve that, among other things, connects your digestive system with your brain. Different branches of your vagus nerve communicate with different organs.

As a consequence of the bilateral resection of both vagus nerves during neck dissections, as well as motor and sensitive damage of the larynx and pharynx, we could observe affection of the normal tone of the oesophagus, stomach and duodenum which forced to enteral nutrition by direct jejunal access, and a disorder of the cardiac rhythm due to ...

2023年7月10日 · Bilateral vocal cord paralysis can be caused by injury to the vagus nerve from its cerebral origins to its branches in the thorax and abdomen, and due to some redundancy, the position of the vocal cords (especially in bilateral paralysis) does not always reliably predict the site of the lesion.

Study with Quizlet and memorize flashcards containing terms like A resection of the vagus nerve, Bilateral resection of a segment of the vagus nerve at the level of the distal esophagus or gastric cardia, Liver, gallbladder, bile duct, pancreas, small intestine and half of the large intestine will lose parasympathetic nerve supply during what ...

2017年11月14日 · During resection of the carotid body tumor, special attention and identification of the surrounding nerves are crucial in avoiding inadvertent injuries, especially the superior laryngeal nerve, which has been reported to be the most injured nerve during dissection.

2022年12月11日 · The postoperative complications of truncal vagotomy are well documented. Resection of the vagal nerve trunks above the celiac and hepatic branches (differentiates TV versus SV) leads to parasympathetic denervation of the pylorus, liver, biliary tree, pancreas, and small and large intestines.

Options for treatment include surgical resection, radiation therapy, and, in selected cases, observation. Surgical extirpation requires a multidisciplinary skull base team to achieve complete tumor resection. Radiation therapy is reserved for elderly patients and patients at risk for bilateral cranial nerve deficits.

2023年9月14日 · Vagotomy is a surgery where part of your vagus nerve is removed. Until antacid medications and stomach bacteria treatments came along, this was one of the main treatments for peptic...

Of these, unilateral cervical sympathectomy, stellate ganglionectomy, bilateral cervical sympathectomy, unilateral cervicodorsal sympathectomy, and bilateral resection of the posterior pulmonary plexus have gained some application. The results, in general, are still debatable, yet in certain instances brilliant success has been reported.

Previous reports of the findings in transthoracic, bilateral vagus-nerve resection have described changes in size, shape, motility and emptying of the stomach following operation. The findings...