[Prevention and complex treatment of duodenal stump incompetence].

The results of surgical treatment of 1,069 patients for gastric and duodenal ulcer were studied. Duodenal stump incompetence (DSI) developed in 25 patients (6.3%) after the Billroth II operation; the incompetence was manifested by three clinical forms: infiltrative, primary-fistular, and perforative-peritoneal.