[Treatment of the gastric tuberosity in sliding hiatal hernias].

A technique for the treatment of gastric tuberosity in hiatal hernias due to slippage is presented. It consists of overturning and attachment of the tuberosity to the anterior wall of the stomach and gastropexy according to Niessen. The excellent results obtained with this very simple and by no means traumatic operation suggest that, given the same results with regard to the disappearance of the hernia that the postoperative disturbances observed in a considerable number of cases treated by means of classic fundoplication.