Cáncer gástrico incipiente: experiencia del Hospital John Kennedy en Valdivia: período 1976-1989 / Early gastric cancer in Valdivia, Chile

ABSTRACT

We report our experience with 19 patients with early gastric cancer in Valdivia, a southern province of Chile. All patients had symptoms and 15 had a preoperative biopsy. A mean of 39 days elapsed between biopsy and surgery. An emergency operation was performed in 3 patients. The mean lesion size was 10 cm2. An intramucous location was prsent in 9 patients and a submucous one in 10. Infiltration of the first lymph node barrier was observed in only 1 patient. A type F.1 ressection was performed in 68% of patients, a type 2 resection in 11% and a type 3 in 5%. Recurrences were observed in 3 patients and 2 of them died. 5 year survival rate was 100% and 7 year survival rate was 100% and 7 years survival was 68%