Clinical note: PDF OnlyGastric sensation: Report of a caseNathan, P. W.Author Information The National Hospital for Nervous Diseases, Quenn Square, London WC1N 3BG Great Britain Submitted November 21, 1980; accepted November 26, 1980. Pain: April 1981 - Volume 10 - Issue 2 - p 259-262 doi: 10.1016/0304-3959(81)90202-5 Buy Metrics Abstract Gastric sensation was examined in a patient via a gastrotomy tube. A commissural myelotomy, dividing the fibres that cross the spinal cord between the 2nd thoracic and 2nd lumbar segments, caused no changes in gastric sensation. © Lippincott-Raven Publishers.