[History of surgery of stomach and cardial carcinoma].
Despite the marked decline in incidence during last 50 years, gastric cancer remains significant cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide. According to data in 1984. incidence in Yugoslavia was 35 per 100,000. In the United States, where incidence is not high, 24,000 new cases and 13,300 deaths had been estimated for the year 1992. Despite fact that modern diagnostic and surgical concept changed perspective for significant number of the patients with gastric carcinoma, most authors agree that Gastric cancer may be the most seriously mismanaged malignancy from a surgical perspective in the USA ... (Paul H. Sugarbaker, M.D, April 1999.) Analyzing medical literature, with special respect to domestic literature, authors analyzed historical data of gastric cancer surgery.
Centar za hirurgiju jednjaka, Institut za bolesti digestivnog sistema KCS, Beograd.
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D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000266:history / Q000601:surgery; D002299:Cardia; D013502:General Surgery / Q000266:history*; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000266:history* / Q000601:surgery