LATENT VITAMIN B1 DEFICIENCY FOLLOWING GASTRECTOMY FOR GASTRIC CANCER

Early gastric stump cancer following distal gastrectomy.

BACKGROUND Gastric stump cancer (GSC) is usually diagnosed at an advanced stage, and consequently the prognosis is poor. AIMS To investigate the clinicopathological characteristics of GSC at an early stage to assist in its identification, and thereby improve its prognosis. METHODS Forty three patients with resected early GSC were compared with 156 patients with resected primary early cancer...

Vitamin-B1 Deficiency

Vitamin A, D, and E after Gastrectomy for Gastric Cancer

Copyright: © 2013 Rino Y, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Abnormal vitamin metabolism after gastric surgery for gastric cancer has been reported over the past 20 years. Castle factor def...

Ataxic gait following total gastrectomy for gastric cancer

A 58-year-old woman, who had undergone total gastrectomy for early gastric cancer 9 years previously, visited the outpatient clinic complaining of progressive difficulty in walking for 15 d. Laboratory examinations showed macrocytic anemia and a decreased serum vitamin B12 concentration and increased serum concentrations of folate, vitamin E and copper. Magnetic resonance imaging showed multifo...

Postoperative subphrenic abscess following gastrectomy for gastric cancer.

From 1985 to 1989, a total of 598 gastric cancer patients underwent gastrectomies in the First Department of Surgery at Kurume University School of Medicine. Of these, 24 patients (4.0%) incurred a subphrenic abscess, postoperatively. Subphrenic abscesses occurred most frequently after total gastrectomies at a rate of 17 of 197 (8.8%) cases. Leaking gastrointestinal anastomoses were responsible...