title: [Surgical treatment of benign ulcer of the gastric cardia: an experience from 21 cases].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To study the result of surgical treatment of benign ulcer of the gastric cardia.
  
  
  METHODS
  Clinical symptom, number, position and size of ulcer, preoperative X-ray gastroscopic examine, type and complication of operation were retrospective analyzed in 21 patients with benign ulcer of the gastric cardia.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Average age in 21 patients was 60. Ulcer complicated bleeding in 7 cases (33.3%) and perforation in 5 cases (23.8%). Diagnostic rate of preoperative X-ray and gastroscopic examine was 57.1% and 100%, respectively. Of 21 patients 18 (85.7%) were treated by upper partial gastrectomy, and 3 (14.3%) by total gastrectomy. All were not operative death and anastomotic leak.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  upper partial gastrectomy can resect focus of ulcer and decrease secretion of stomach acid. It is a simple and ideal pattern of operation for patients with benign ulcer of the gastric cardia.
authors.affiliation: Department of Oncology, Affiliated Union Hospital of Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou 350001, China.
authors.forename: Changming
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Xiangfu
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Huishan
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.forename: Xinyuan
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Guoxian
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Guan
authors.forename: Chuan
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002299:Cardia; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011379:Prognosis; D013276:Stomach Ulcer / Q000601:surgery*