Abstract
With the view to elucidating risk factors on aged patients with stomach cancer, the correlations of preoperative test results and degree of surgical stress with postoperative complications were examined in 58 patients with stomach cancer, aged of 80 and over. For risk factors, a correlation of abnormal ECG and respiratory dysfunction with postoperative complications was noted, while for surgical stress, combined resection of other organs and intraoperative bleeding showed a correlation with postoperative complications, but the degree of lymph node dissection did not therwith. These results suggest that combined resection of other organs, which causes excess stress and intraoperative bleeding should be avoided as possible as we can, thereby making it possible to carry out radical operation for stomach cancer associated with lymph node dissection R2 or so even in aged patients.
