Gastric carcinoma may present atypically in the elderly. Between 1955 and 1979, 571 autopsies on gastric carcinoma cases were carried out at the Gade Institute, Bergen. In 165 of them the diagnosis had not been made clinically. The latter patients were, on average, 10 years older at death than those in whom the diagnosis was made premortem, and their tumours were smaller. In 45 the tumour was considered an incidental autopsy finding, while 58 were diagnosed clinically as advanced cancer of unknown origin. In the remaining 62 cases the cancer was the underlying cause of death. Recognition of an elderly sub-group of patients whose gastric carcinomas presented atypically brings with it an increasing diagnostic challenge in our ageing population.
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