CARCINOID OF THE STOMACH IN ASSOCIATION W ITH CHRONIC ATROPHIC GASTRITIS OF THE CORPUS OF THE STOMACH IN PERNICIOUS-ANEMIA

A 41-year-old woman with a chronic atrophic gastritis after endoscopic investigation diagnosed a carcinoid at the corpus of the stomach. The re were more lesions in the mucosa of the stomach in the form of dyspl asias. The labor investigation indicated an hypergastrinaemia. We perf ormed a resection of the basis of the carcinoid. It has shown to be hi stologically tumor-free as the rest of the stomach, A gastrectomy was not necessary. After resection the patient was under therapy with vita min B-12, The level of gastrin in blood was normal under this treatmen t. Two years later the patient remained symptom-free. Regular endoscop ic investigations show a stagnation of the growth of the dysplastic le sions of the mucosa of the stomach.