[Cancer of the stomach complicated by profuse hemorrhage]

Hemorrhagic gastric cancer is noted in 4-25% of observations, according to the author--in 23.5%, profuse hemorrhages as reported by the author make 3.4% of the total number of recorded gastric cancer cases and 14.4% among hemorrhagic gastric cancers. To detect the source of bleeding is very difficult. In 37% of observations profuse gastric hemorrhage is the first sign of stomach lesion. Female patients show the predominance of cancer of the stomach body and 1st grade blood losses, male patients--cancer of the proximal gastric portion and 3d grade blood losses. In relation to the anatomical type of growth a saucer--shape cancer is predominant. Gastric hemorrhage is not a reliable sign of inoperability, radical operations were performed in 31% of patients with the postoperative mortality in 15.7%. The death rate in non-operated patients was 36.8%.