Perforated gastric carcinoma: a report of 10 cases and review of the literature

Table 3 Published series of patients with perforated gastric cancer.

						Mortality (%)
Reference	N° patients	Incidence (%)	Preoperative diagnosis (%)	N° Repair surgery	N° Gastrectomy	Repair	Gastrectomy	Survival data
Aird 1935[24]*	38	-	7.5	31	7	22 (71)	0	-
McNealy 1938[4]*	63	4.0	33.8	47	7	39 (82)	2 (29)	-
Casberg 1940[31]	5	2.4	0	5	0	4(80)	-	-
Bisgard 1945[5]*	115	2.8–6.0	3.2	80	15	59(74)	2(13)	-
Larmi 1962[13]	19	3.0	42.1	16	4	8(50)	0	Survival range in resected cases 18–42 months
Wilson 1966[12]	14	1.2	30.8	5	5	0	0	Survival range of patients with R₀ resection, 15–41 months; with R₁-R₂ 4–15 months
Cortese 1972[11]	13	0.6	40.0	11	2	3(27)	0	Survival range of patients with R₀ resection, 14–108 months; with R₁-R₂ 2 months
Stechenberg 1981[3]	9	3.9	0	7	2	2(29)	0	Mean survival, 5 months (range 1–18)
Siegert 1982[32]	4	2.3	25	0	4	-	0	Range of survival, 1–18 months
Miura 1985[20]	9	0.6	33.3	1	8	-	-	Median survival, 108 months (range, 4–144)
Gertsch 1995[10]	34	-	29.4	4	30	2(50)	5(17)	Median survival stage I 50 months; III, 17 months; IV 4 months
Adachi 1997[1]*	155	0.5–3.6	34.7	27	128	19(70)	9(7)	5-years survival stage I-II, 76%; III-IV, 19%
Lehnert 2000[9]	23	1.8	39.1	12^†	11	1(8)	2(18)	5-years survival R₀, 50%; 2-years survival R₁-R₂, 9%
Kasakura 2002[2]	16	0.7	31.2	2^‡	14	1(50)	1(7)	Median survival stage I-II 75 months; III-IV, 4.8 months
Ozmen 2002[25]	14	3.0	35.7	3^§	11^‡	1(33)	4(36)	-
IRGGC 2005	10	0.4	30.0	4	6	3(75)	1(17)	See text and Table 2

* Collected series; ^† 5 patients underwent secondary radical gastrectomy; ^‡ 1 patient underwent secondary radical gastrectomy; ^§ 2 patients underwent secondary radical gastrectomy.

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