To investigate the clinicopathological features of gastric carcinoma in southern China and disease trends changes over the last 18 years.We designed a retrospective study in the Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, the first affiliated hospital, Sun Yat-sen University. A total of 2100 adult patients with definitely diagnosed, histologically proven gastric carcinomas treated with radical gastrectomy from 1994 to 2013 were examined retrospectively. In all cases patient age, gender, tumor location, Borrmann type, histopathological type and grade, and pTNM stage were identified and recorded. The information was obtained from hospital records. The data were analyzed with Stata12.0 software.In this study, the mean age of patients was 57 years with a range from 19-89 years. A higher incidence was found in patients over 60 years of age. In the study population, 67.38

作者：Jian-Jun, Peng；Ping, Xiao；Jian-Bo, Xu；Wu, Song；Bing, Liao；Yu-Long, He

来源：World journal of gastroenterology 2014 年 20卷 15期