That portion of the stomach remaining after gastric surgery, usually gastrectomy or gastroenterostomy for cancer of the stomach or peptic ulcer. It is a common site of cancer referred to as stump cancer or carcinoma of the gastric stump.

Annotation

stomach remnant after gastrectomy; a common site of neopl: coord IM with STOMACH NEOPLASMS (IM) + histol type of neopl (IM)

DUI

D018530 MeSH Browser

CUI

M0027779

Previous indexing

Gastrectomy (1966-1994); Gastroenterostomy (1966-1994); Stomach Neoplasms (1966-1994)

History note

95

Public note

95