出版社：Red Universitaria de Servicios Telemáticos Integrados para Comunidades Virtuales de Usuariarios.
摘要：4,484 cancers were studied taken from de Data Base of Autopsies in the National Center of SARCAP, National Register of Autopsies in Cuba, with the purpose of demonstrating its general characteristics and specially the principal sites of cancer, its direct causes of death and the evaluation of the premorten diagnosis. It is represented 47 institutions from the 14 provinces of the country. It was analyzed the situation that digestive cancer occupies in the world and in our country, highlighting the importance of the precocious diagnosis in order to achieve more survivals. The most frequent cancers were :colon, pancreas and stomach. The ages of 18 up to 111 years old are included and the decade more represented was 65-74 years old with the 26.1%. The reason M/F was of 1.2. The infection, particularly bronchopneumonia, was the direct cause of death of most frequency. When we evaluate the quality of the diagnosis, the discrepancy of the studied cancers was 17.0% in general in the basic causes of death and in its direct causes of death it was 34.8%. It was high lightened with major diagnostic discrepancies : small intestine, liver, vesicle, biliary vias and pancreas in the basic causes of death and pancreas, liver, stomach, vesicle and biliary vias in the direct causes of death. It is important the use of the multiple causes of death in the digestive cancer study and the role of the autopsy is strengthen as the most complet study of the sick/sickness and the guarantee of quality in medicine.
关键词：Autopsia; cáncer digestivo; calidad; causas de muerte múltiples.
