RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Adenocarcinoma Of The Stomach: A Plea For Early Diagnosis
JF The Journal of the American Board of Family
                Practice
JO J Am Board Fam Med
FD American Board of Family Medicine
SP 171
OP 174
DO 10.3122/jabfm.4.3.171
VO 4
IS 3
A1 Godreau, Charles J.
A1 Salander, Susan
A1 Godreau, Susan E.
YR 1991
UL http://www.jabfm.org/content/4/3/171.abstract
AB In the United States, early diagnosis and cure of gastric carcinoma remain elusive. Patients with this disease commonly have gastrointestinal symptoms that often go unexplained. Physicians give gastric carcinoma a low priority in their differential diagnosis and are unaware of the risk factors patients may have. Patients may have a normal upper gastrointestinal series, and fiberoptic gastroscopy is delayed. Patients with unexplained indigestion and abdominal pain, coupled with such risk factors for gastric carcinoma as national origin, diet, heredity, and previous subtotal gastrectomy for gastric ulcers, should be given the opportunity of esophagogastroduodenoscopy.