[A retrospective investigation of patients with gastric cancer in ward patients].
A retrospective investigation of 1,079 patients with gastric cancer among 181,055 patients in a general hospital showed that 0.59% of all the ward patients suffered from gastric cancer (6:1, male preponderant) , with the age ranging from 41-70, and the peak age was between 50-60. Most (98.24%) were progressive, others (1.76%) were early gastric cancers. Many of the patients with clinical courses over 1 year before hospitalization had histories of gastropathy. Pathological examination of the early gastric cancers showed that the cancers in 15 (78.94%) out of 19 patients were due to malignant change of ulcers. However, our results were not quite similar to previous reports in the distribution, limit, number and microscopic classification of the lesions. There was no obvious discrepancy in lesion display and diagnostic accuracy among the three methods, e.g., regular examination, double contrast examination, and the endoscopy examination (P greater than 0.05). The accuracy of diagnosis might be improved by using multiple examinations of stomach and combination of gastrointestinal examination with endoscopy.
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D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012494:Sampling Studies; D012737:Sex Factors; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology*