[Perforation of gastric cancer]

An analysis of treatment of 85 patients with perforating cancerous tumor of the stomach is presented. Males--63, females--22. The patients' age ranged from 32 to 85 years. Sixty seven patients were operatd upon, 35 of them died. Eighteen patients were not subjected to surgery, all of them died. The following variants of complications associated with gastric cancer are noted: cancer perforation--in 32, hemorrhage and the perforation--in 35, perforation and hemorrhage occurred simultaneously--in 15, perforation followed by hemorrhage--in 3. High mortality rate was due to grave patients' condition, difficulties and errors of diagnosis, inadequacy of therapeutic measures, late operative interventions. The results obtained are described.