[Stomach cancer following gastroenterostomy]

Treatment was applied to 279 cases of gastric carcinoma at the authors' hospital, within a period of six years. Fourteen of these patients (five per cent) had received surgical treatment for peptic ulcer, between seven and 44 years back (23.6 years on average). Bilateral truncular vagotomy and pyloroplasty had been applied as primary operation to 6.9 per cent. The remaining 93.1 per cent had undergone either exclusive gastrojejunostomy or, in addition, partial gastrectomy. Partial or residual resection of the stomach could be performed on six patients only.