老年人胃肠道疾病较常见,而且癌瘤发病率高,以胃癌占首位。在无严重合并症存在时,进行胃镜检查是可取的,但老年患者做此项检查的安全性和耐受性尚待研究。本文报告713例老年患者纤维胃镜检查情况。对象和方法病例来源:河北省医院于1974年7月～82年6月共进行胃镜检查3,700例(其中老年人550 Gastrointestinal disease in the elderly is more common, and the high incidence of cancer, with gastric cancer in the first place. Gastroscopy is desirable in the absence of serious comorbidities, but the safety and tolerability of this test in elderly patients remains to be studied. This article reports 713 cases of elderly patients with fiber endoscopy. Subjects and methods Case source: Hebei Provincial Hospital from July 1974 to June 82 were gastroscopy 3,700 cases (of which 550