胃及十二指肠之良性疾患手术后,在残留的胃上发生的癌称为残胃癌。残胃癌自1922年由Balfour首次报告以来,有关残胃癌之病例报告、病例统计和病理学研究之文献相继发表,残胃癌已非罕见疾病。1973年Morgenstern统计1922年以来见于文献的残胃癌病例已超过1,100例,1972年山下忠义等统计日本 Benign diseases of the stomach and duodenum After surgery, the cancer that develops on the remaining stomach is called residual gastric cancer. Since the first report of Balbin from 1922 by Balfour, the literature on case reports, case statistics and pathological studies of gastric stump cancer have been published one after another. Stump gastric cancer is not a rare disease. In 1973 Morgenstern counted more than 1,100 cases of gastric stump cancer that had been documented since 1922. In 1972 Yamashita Loyoshi et al. Statistics Japan