Gastric eversion

When treating a patient who is bleeding from stress ulcers, the initial gastrotomy needs to be made high enough to allow for eversion and close inspection of the flattened rugal folds of the upper stomach.

Original figure modified for this publication. Starzl TE, Sanders RJ. A maneuver for detection of the site of gastric hemorrhage. Surg Gynecol Obstet 1963; 116:121. Illustration used with the permission of Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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