title: Surgical management of gastric cancer patients with liver cirrhosis.
abstract: From 1966 to 1992, a total of 3,118 gastric cancer (GC) patients were referred to the First Department of Surgery, Kurume University Hospital. Fifty-six (0.02%) of these patients also had liver cirrhosis (LC). Forty-nine (87.5%) of these patients with LC underwent GC resection. Postoperative complications occurred in 32.7%, but the operative mortality rate was zero using our preoperative assessment of liver function to decide the operation. The 5-year survival rate following curative resection was 69% in early cancer and 17% in advanced cancer. Deaths were mainly cirrhosis-related in the early cancer cases, while cancer recurrence and hepatic failure were the main causes of mortality in the advanced cancer cases.
authors.affiliation: Department of Gastroenterology, Kurume University School of Medicine, Japan.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Takeda
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Toyonaga
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Koufuji
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Kodama
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tsuji
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Aoyagi
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kakegawa
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008103:Liver Cirrhosis / Q000150:complications*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*