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

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J.Jpn. Surg. Soc.. 90(4): 513-516, 1989

Original article

RELATIVE NON CURATIVE RESECTION OF GASTRIC CANCER

First Department of Surgery, Akita University School of Medicine, Akita, Japan

Masashi Kodama, Kochi Ishikawa, Hirofumi Koyama, Yoshikiko Yamazaki, Tomio Narisawa, Kenji Koyama

Relative non curative resection of gastric cancer was studied according to The General Rules of Japanese Research Society for gastric cancer. The five year survival rate was 31.2%, while 39.6% for relative curative resection and 4.9% for absolute non curative resection. The cases whose relative non curative factor was due to lymph nodes (n>R) resulted in a fair prognosis, but the progenosis of those concerned with peritoneal dissemination (P1) or liver metastasis (H1) was very poor. Surgical achievement to improve postoperative results may be obtained when a systemic ⑬, ⑭v, ⑯ lymph node dissection is performed whenever only one of them was involved in metastassis.

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