[Relationship between endoscopic features and prognosis of pm-gastric cancer--with special reference to the depressive type of pm-cancer].

In this report, operated advanced gastric cancer was analysed based on 96 cases of carcinoma of the proper muscle layer (pm-cancer) experienced between 1961 and 1982 at the Third Department of Internal Medicine, Tohoku University School of Medicine, and its associated hospital. Patterns of macroscopic findings in pm-cancer were classified into three types: (1) early type, (2) early-like cancer type, and (3) Borrmann's variety type. The degree of lymph node metastasis ascended in types (1), (2) and (3) in that order, and the five-year survival rate descended in the same order.