Gastric carcinoma presenting as an acute abdomen

✍ Scribed by N. V. Addison

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1957
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 217 KB
• Volume: 45
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0007-1323
• DOI: 10.1002/bjs.18004518922

✦ Synopsis

CARCINOMA of the stomach usually presents i n a wellknown variety of ways. T h e following case is of interest i n view of its unusual presentation. into the lesser sac. A Polya-type partial gastrectomy was Performed-The greater m ~e n t u m was removed, the stomach being divided 15 cm. above the upper limit of the growth on the greater curvature. There were several palpable glands in the gastrohepatic omentum, HISTORY.--J. G., a labourer, aged 62 years, was which were removed with the stomach. The duodenum admitted to hospital on December 8, 1955. He was closed with linen thread, and an antecolic gastrocomplained of severe constant abdominal pain, mainly in jejunostomy performed. The afferent loop was sutured the right iliac fossa, which had started very suddenly, to the lesser curve of the stomach, and a Hofmeister 9 hours prior to admission. He had vomited bile-stained valve was constructed. The abdomen was closed in