[Early gastric carcinoma; surgical problems (author's transl)]

In the period from 1965 to 1979 63 patients suffering from early gastric cancer underwent resection, i.e. 7,4% of all resected cases of cancer of the stomach in our hospital. The 3 year survival rate came up to 80%, 5 years survival was 75%. The postoperative mortality rate was less than 5%, since 1975 no postoperative mortality. Distal resection was performed in 74%, gastrectomy in 11%, upper partial resection in 6%, gastrotomy in combination with polypectomy in 9%.