[The combined treatment of locally disseminated stomach cancer with intra-arterial regional chemotherapy].

The method of a long-term celiac artery catheterization through the lumbar transaortic access is proposed. In 56 patients with a 3d stage gastric cancer regional intraarterial chemotherapy with 5-fluorouracil was used pre- and postoperatively. There was a decrease of postoperative complications from 47.8 + 6% in surgical treatment to 16.0 +/- 4% in combined treatment. Metastases and recurrence were observed in 11 (21.2 + 5%) patients with regional chemotherapy and in 34 (58.6 + 6%) patients with surgical treatment only.