[Cancer of the gastric stump]

Among a series of 266 cases of gastric cancer operated on between 1981 and 1991, 8 cases were developed on gastric stump after gastro-duodenal surgery. A post operative delay of 10 years has been insisted upon. We note an exclusive masculine series. The main age was 61 years. Clinical aspects were univoque and treatment was always surgical with a resecability rate of 37%. Pathological analysis of operatory specimen and biopsies has shown everywhere an adenocarcinoma. The only way to improve the prognosis and to lay the live based on the yearly histoendoscopic supervision since the tenth year after initial intervention of these operated patients of the stomach with high neoplastic risk.