The Roux-en-Y bypass involves construction of a small upper gastric pouch (currently 20 mL or less) that empties food into the small intestine through a Roux limb gastrojejunostomy (FIGURE 2).
Management of afferent loop obstruction from recurrent metastatic pancreatic cancer using a venting gastrojejunostomy. World J Gastrointest Oncol 2013; 15: 235-9.
Petersen's space is the space between the afferent loop mesentery of gastrojejunostomy and the lower part of transverse colon mesentery that is created after gastrojejunostomy in some procedures such as RYGB and OAGB [3, 4].
A total of 6 patients had Intraluminal gastro-intestinal haemorrhage; 2 patients had bleeding from pancreaticogastrostomy and 1 had bleeding from gastrojejunostomy site, out of these 3 patients, one was re-explored after endovascular attempts but died even after all measures and 2 patient were attempted to be managed via endovascular means but only one endeavor was successful.
Background: Gastrojejunostomy (GJJ) and endoscopic stenting (ES) are palliative treatments for gastric outlet obstruction (GOO) caused by gastric cancer.
Traditional surgical techniques such as gastrojejunostomy, partial gastrectomy, and fundoantral gastrogastrostomy are no longer used due to newer less-invasive procedures [6].
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