A clinical study was carried out on 227 cases of gastric cancer managed at Department of General Surgery of EWHA Woman's University Hospital, from January 1986 to December 1992
@ES The results were as follows :
@EN 1) the age were 27 years to 92 years, and the most freguent age group was 6th decade.
2) the sex ration of male to female was 1.8 : 1
3) The duration of symptom were less than 6 months in 62.5% and more than 6 months in 37.5%.
4) The most common subjective symptoms were epigastric pain & discomfort (79.2%), indigestion (33%), weight loss (13.2%) and nausea & vomiting (11.8%) respectively.
5) The proportion of blood group A among all cases was 37% which was slight higher than that of general population 32.6%.
6) Epigastric tenderness was most common physical finding (44.9%). but 14.5% of all cases had no physical findings.
7) The most common lesion location were antrum & pylorus in 69%, body and fundus were 27% and 4% respectively.
8) 99.6% of all acse were adenocarcinoma.
9) Early gastric cancer were found in 21.1% of cases.
10) The operability was 92.5%, and resectability was 85.9%.
11) Postoperative morbidity was 18%, Wound infection and enterocutaneous fistula were most common complications.
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