[X-ray study of the stomach after vertical gastroplasty in the treatment of morbid obesity].

The operation vertical gastroplasty is used to treat the so-called morbid obesity. It ends with the formation of a small stomach. Some experience gained with X-ray of the stomach is analyzed in 17 patients undergone vertical gastroplasty. X-ray evaluates the status of the small stomach arranged as a tube in the upper portions in the vicinity of the lesser curvature of the stomach. The shape, sizes, outlet of the small stomach, as well as emptying rates and the state of an internal vertical suture of the stomach are to be studied.