Associate Professor,
*Correspondence address: Dr. B Narasimha Rao, MBBS, MD (Pathology) Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, F H Medical College and Hospital, Near Etmadpur, Tundla. District Firozabad, Uttar Pradesh-283201, Email: doctorbnr@gmail.com
This study was a four years retrospective analysis of gastric cancers performed in a teaching hospital, AP. A 72 cases of gastric cancers were selected which accounted for 18% of gastrointestinal cancers. Pylorus was the commonest site involved, followed by the body and then cardia-fundus. Grossly the commonest type was an infiltrative lesion. Microscopically according to Lauren's classification, intestinal type was the commonest (23%), followed by diffuse (22%) and mixed (7%). Chronic follicular gastritis, intestinal metaplasia and lymphoid hyperplasia were common findings in the intestinal type of adenocarcinoma.
Adenocarcinoma, Gastrointestinal cancers, histopathology
