Treatment of patients with hemorrhages due to cancer of gastric stump

In the paper, the results of studies of gastric hemorrhages due to gastric stump cancer are reported. A total of 36 patients were treated. Eighteen patients were operated previously for gastric cancer, 12 - for ulcerous disease, 5 - for polyposis of the stomach and 1 - for pylorospasm. Roentgenological and endoscopic studies are of primary importance for establishing the diagnosis of hemorrhagic cancer of the operated stomach. The treatment of such patients was initiated with conservative measures directed at arresting the hemorrhage and normalization of homeostasis. Eighteen patients were operated upon after the arrest of hemorrhage (in 6 - radical operation was performed, in 3 - palliative, in 9 - tentative laparotomy1. The total mortality in patients with hemorrhagic cancer of gastric stump was 30.5%.