[Motor activity of the gastrointestinal tract in the immediate days following a gastric resection for cancer].

The author used the method of abdominal phonography to study the motor activity of the gastrointestinal tract after resection of the stomach for carcinoma and also to determine the degree of the effect of different stages of the operation and of its volume upon the motor function in 88 patients. Diagnostic laparotomy was carried out in 41 patients. The phonography findings showed postoperative depression of gastrointestinal motor function in the most of cases within the first days after operation.