Proximal resection of carcinoma of the gastric cardia
Uchikov, A.; Paskalev, G.; Uchikov, P.; Grigorov, D.
Khirurgiia 59(4): 11-12
2003
ISSN/ISBN: 0450-2167 PMID: 15641529 Document Number: 565033
Carcinoma of the gaster remains one of the major problems of the operative oncology, because of its high freguency, late diagnosis and low rate of five years survival. Although there are a lot of researches in this field, there is still a controversy about the size of the operative treatment of carcinoma of the gastric cardia. Some of the surgeons advocate gastrectomy as the only radical operation. Others prefer proximal resection as a method, saving a part of gaster, and in that way its important physiological functions for the organism.