Table 1.

Incidence of synchronous gastric cancers in the surgically resected stomach

Ref.	Overall		Missed lesion
Noguchi et al[42], 1985	6.50%	468/7220
Ezaki et al[24], 1987	14.60%	75/512
Honmyo et al[43], 1989	4.80%	40/839	53%	21/40
Mitsudomi et al[44], 1989	8.30%	83/997	23%	42/182
Kosaka et al[25], 1990	5.80%	49/852
Kodera et al[26], 1995	5.70%	160/2790	53%	85/160
Kodama et al[45], 1996	6.80%	107/1458	64%	69/107
Fujita et al[46], 2009	8.70%	266/3042
Lee et al[27], 2010	5.20%	51/986	28%	14/51
Total	6.90%	1299/18696	39%	210/540