EARLY CANCER OF THE GASTRIC REMNANT DISCOVERED BY MASS X-RAY SURVEY OF THE STOMACH

-CLINICAL EXPERIENCE OF METACHRONOUS MULTIPLE CANCERS-

Abstract

Only a few workers have so far reported on early cancer of the gastric remnant Reported here is a clinical experience of early gastric cancer I type which the authors discovered in the gastric remnant. The patient is now well 10 years after the second operation. The patient was a 61-year-old male to whom partial gastrectomy had been performed 18 years ago because of advanced cancer of Borrmann's type II at the antral portion of the stomach. Although the patient had been asymptomatic after the first operation, early cancer was detected in the gastric remnant by a screening survey of the stomach. This case may suggest the importance of periodical survey after gastrectomy.