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CLINICOPATHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT OF GASTRIC CARCINOMA IN A SAMPLE OF IRAQI PATIENTS
Nada A. Abdullah*, Alaa G Hussein and Ban J. Qasim
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Introduction: Stomach cancer kills many people globally. Cancers dominate gastrointestinal malignancies. Gastric carcinoma is the fifth-most common and third-deadliest cancer. ? (age, gender, location, grade, gross features, endoscopical findings, clinical presentation, pathological stage and lymph node status). Method: A retrospective study including analysis of 100 randomly selected patients with gastric carcinoma collected from Teaching Laboratories of Al-Emamain Al-Kadhmain (AS) Medical City, Baghdad Medical City and private laboratories from October 2017 to January 2021and Regarding the type of specimen, (59.0%) were endoscopic biopsies, while (41.0%) were gastric resection specimens. Results: Age-wise, 68% of the sample aged 40-60. 1:1 male-female ratio. Epigastric discomfort was the main complaint (35.0%). The most frequent endoscopic presentation (20%) was ulcerative mass. Histological type was intestinal (53%), diffuse (47.0%). In 41 gastric resection patients, pT3 (68.3%) and pN2 (26.8%) were the most prevalent tumour sizes and nodal statuses. (57.0%) were badly differentiated, whereas 43.0% were moderately differentiated. Conclusion: Male to female ratio was 1:1; the majority of cases were between 40 and 60 years old; epigastric pain was the most frequent clinical presentation; both types of gastric carcinoma most frequently developed in the pylorus; lesions were more frequently 3 to 6 cm in size; and T3N2Mx was the most common stage.
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