[Acute gastrointestinal bleedings of tumorous etiology].

A retrospective analysis of treatment of 436 patients with acute bleedings from tumors of the gastrointestinal tract was made. Elderly and senile patients made up 72% of the hospitalized patients. The emergency complex diagnostics in 75% of the patients under conditions of a multi-profile hospital allowed the source of bleeding to be detected during the first day, the strategy of treatment being also determined. Radical operations could be fulfilled both in emergency and planned order on most patients. Lethality of patients with tumors of the stomach and colon after radical operations was 10%, after palliative operations 29.5% and 27.9% respectively. Acute bleedings from tumors of the gastrointestinal tract is not the absolute sign of the patient being inoperable.