J.Jpn. Surg. Soc.
ISSN 1880-1129

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J.Jpn. Surg. Soc.. 88(4): 440-446, 1987

Original article

DIFFERENTIAL METASTATIC MODE OF GASTRIC CANCER BY AGE AND HISTOLOGICAL TYPE

Second Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan

Makoto Sakamoto

Metastatic mode of gastric cancer was examined in 173 autopsy cases, in which the primary tumor had not been resected, and was compared between different histological types as well as different age groups.
From the histological view point, the differentiated gastric cancer showed preferential metastasis to the Iiver, while the undifferentiated type showed a prevalence in peritoneal dissemination as well as lymph node metastasis. From the view point of aging, the peritoneal dissemination was more frequently observed in the younger patients than in the older patients in both differentiated and undifferentiated types. The similar prevalence in the younger patients was also observed in lymph node metastasis of gastric cancer of undifferentiated type, but not in that of differentiated type. Regarding the liver metastasis, there was no difference between different age groups in both differentiated and undifferentiated types.

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