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Report of Six Cases

LIEUTENANT COLONEL R. B. MORELAND

Arch Surg. 1946;52(5):603-609.

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IN the last few years, removal of the entire stomach has been accomplished with sufficient frequency and success to establish it as a sound procedure in certain cases of neoplastic infiltration of a major part of the stomach. In 1938, Lahey¹ reported 8 cases with 3 deaths. By 1944 Lahey and Marshall² were able to report 73 cases, the largest series on record, with an operative mortality of 33 per cent. In 1943 Pack³ reviewed 278 cases of total gastrectomy for carcinoma and added 20 cases from the Memorial Hospital for the Treatment of Cancer and Allied Diseases. The operative mortality for the entire group was 37.6 per cent; for the cases from the Memorial Hospital it was 30 per cent.

DeAmesti⁴ called attention to the fact that complete removal of the stomach may be followed by a fairly healthy existence. The reservoir function of the . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Chief of Surgical Service, Veterans Administration Hospital, New York MEDICAL CORPS, ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES

From the Veterans Administration Hospital, New York.

Footnotes
Published with the permission of the medical director of the Veterans Administration, who assumes no responsibility for the opinions expressed or the conclusions drawn by the author.

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