[Clinicopathological study of early multicentric gastric carcinomas]

During a two-year period, from August, 1983 to July, 1985, 144 gastric cancer patients have been treated at the National Tohsei Hospital. Among them, 57 patients were determined as having an early gastric carcinoma. Four patients (7.0%) of this number were found to have a multicentric type, 3 manifesting a double II c type, and 1 patient having both a I type and II a type. Pathologically these two types carcinomas were found in only one patient, in a so-called kissing position.