The remaining gastric pouch and lower esophagus were resected ... that all patients in whom pernicious anemia develops after total gastrectomy would have had the disease with or without the ...

You might have: a subtotal or partial gastrectomy - your surgeon removes part of your stomach a total gastrectomy - your surgeon removes your whole stomach an oesophagogastrectomy - your surgeon ...

A pouch of normal fundus consisting of no more ... Incidence of megaloblastic anemia after total gastrectomy. New Eng. J. Med. 254:885–893, 1956.