[Intra-arterial chemotherapy combined with noradrenaline--histopathological effect in stomach cancer].

The histological evaluation of intraarterial administration of MMC, adriamycin and noradrenalin as a preoperative treatment was performed in 24 gastric patients. The effective histological changes estimated microscopically by the Takahashi's criteria were found in 9 (37.5%) patients with the primary tumor and in 8 (50.0%) patients with the metastatic lymph nodes.