[Surgical treatment for gastric cancer in a specialized service: the Rebagliati Hospital experience].

The results of the surgical treatment for gastric cancer within a specialized surgical service in this pathology are described in this work. This system for surgical treatment of gastric cancer is new in our country. The implementation process included prepare a team of surgeons and establish protocols and guides to surgical treatment, based on the recommendations of the Japanese Gastric Cancer Association.

Spinal cord compression: a review of 70 pediatric patients.

The authors report their experience with 70 pediatric patients with spinal cord compression (SCC) due to malignancies identified among 898 patients with solid tumors. An extradural tumor was the most frequent cause of SCC (71%); 54% of these were soft tissue sarcomas and neuroblastoma. Most intradural tumors (70%) were outside the spinal cord, 9/12 being metastatic medulloblastomas.

[ENTERAL NUTRITION IN PERU].

Drawbacks of Nutritional Support diffusion in Peru are presented within current Latin-American technological reality. That reality is compared to widespread use of antibiotic therapy versus a marked lack of use of Nutritional Support. Those factors are against immunity of seriously compromised patients as Enteral Nutrition has positive effects on a patient s immunity.