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MEDISAN
On-line version ISSN 1029-3019
Abstract
ESCALONA VELOZ, Rafael. Pathological characterization of patients operated due to stomach cancer. MEDISAN [online]. 2014, vol.18, n.7, pp. 948-953. ISSN 1029-3019.
A descriptive and retrospective study of the 28 patients with stomach cancer, surgically treated in "Dr. Juan Bruno Zayas Alfonso" Teaching General Hospital in Santiago de Cuba was carried out from 2008 to 2013, in order to characterize them pathologically, for whom the biopsies records were reviewed in the Pathology Department. In the series most of the affected were from the age group 60-69 years (39.3%) and of the female sex (53.5%), and the well differentiated tumors (46.4%), the antral localization (71.4%) and the hystic diffuse type (60.7%) prevailed. Also, the metastasis presence in the ganglion (42.8%), of vascular and lymphatic infiltration (64.2 and 67.8%, respectively), and of Helicobacter pylori in the malignant neoplasia (35.7%) were evidenced. Finally, it was concluded that the patients with gastric cancer were diagnosed lately and that this entity was manifested in a different way from what has been described in the literature on the topic
Keywords : stomach cancer; pathology; Helicobacter pylori; secondary health care.