[Postoperative morbidity and in-hospital mortality of gastrectomy due to gastric adenocarcinoma: a report of 50 years].

Objective: Determine the postoperative morbidity and in-hospital mortality of gastrectomy due to gastric cancer.

Method: The study involved the review of the clinical records of all patients with histologically confirmed diagnostic of gastric adenocarcinoma, which underwent a gastrectomy at the Peruvian Institute of Neoplastic Diseases between January 1950 and December 1999. During that period, 2,033 gastrectomies were performed, 503 of which were total gastrectomies and 1,447 were distal subtotal gastrectomies.

[OPERABILITY AND RESECTABILITY OF GASTRIC CANCER:ANALYSIS OF 2280 CASES IN 15 YEARS].

OBJECTIVES: To determine which are the operability and resectability tendencies of gastric cancer in Peru.BACKGROUND: In Peru, gastric cancer is the first cause of death in men and the third one in women. Most of the patients with gastric cancer receive treatment al the Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Neoplásicas of Lima (INEN).