[Combined surgery in cancer of the proximal section of the stomach].

The investigation showed combined surgery for cancer of the gastric cardia to be justified from the oncological point of view. Such intervention reaches out to the limit of radical treatment. However, combined surgery should not be performed unless there are substantial indications. Basic indications for excision or resection of an adjacent organ should be gastric tumor extension through organs and tissue or dissemination to the regional lymph nodes which cannot be radically removed unless surgery is performed on adjacent organs.