[Gastric cancer and routine upper digestive endoscopy].
In this paper we analyzed 5,401 upper G.I. endoscopies performed in a period of 5 years (1985-89), in the Gastroenterology Service at Hospital Jesús Yerena, in Caracas, Venezuela. We found 53 cases of stomach cancer, only 2 of them were early gastric cancer. We studied personal and epidemiological data, symptoms, place of the lesion, treatment, surgical mortality, macroscopic morphology and histopathology. We discuss the results concluding that: cancer of the stomach is a prevalent disease in our Hospital; that fibrogastroscopy is a very good diagnostic procedure; that we must organize a Program of Early Detection for this disease and that we should improve the Oncological Register.
Oliver
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Servicio de Gastroenterología Dr. Alí Rivas Gómez, Hospital Jesús Yerena, Lídice, Caracas, Venezuela.
Vasallo
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Rojas
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Y
Mora
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M
Barrios
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C
Bracho
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B
D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000601:surgery; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D016145:Endoscopy, Digestive System; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012737:Sex Factors; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000601:surgery
Cáncer gástrico y endoscopia digestiva superior de rutina.