“…Highly selective vagotomy (HSV) (3,27) was developed to avoid antral motor alterations and consequent delay in gastric emptying, because it preserves the vagal fibers to the antropyloric region, and, therefore, a drainage is considered unnecessary. As a matter of fact, whereas the gastric emptying of liquids was found to be enhanced after HSV (10,2 2 ,2 9 , 37), the gastric emptying of solid spheres and of a barium meal did not show significant modifications in most cases (1,2,23,25,49), with only one exception where the gastric emptying of a barium meal was found to be delayed (30). These laboratory data do not match those resulting from clinical studies showing that after HSV some patients presented symptoms of transient or persistent gastric stasis, which made drainage necessary in most instances (4,(24)(25)(26).…”