[Carcinoma of the gastric stump in routine gastroscopies]

205-patients after partial resection of the stomach for benign gastroduodenal ulcers (104 patients for gastric ulcers, 81 patients for duodenal ulcers, 14 patients for combined ulcers) were examined gastroscopically from 1970--1976. The operation was performed more than 5 years ago. 35 carcinomas of the gastric stump could be found (17%). The operation was done in 695 of all cases more than 20 years ago and the male/female relation was estimated to be 6:1. --In 170 other patients with resection of the stomach (61 patients for primary gastric carcinoma, 103 for benign ulcers and 6 for other reasons) with a postoperative interval fewer than 5 years, 10 relapse of carcinoma and 4 carcinomas of the stump were observed. These 4 carcinomas of the stump must be seen as relapses of an carcinoma primarily diagnosed as an ulcer. Gastroscopic-bioptic examinations of patients with an operation performed more than 10 years ago for benign lesions should be done every year. If the cause of operation had been a carcinoma than from the first year after operation.