Purpose: To compare age, sex, complaints, localization of the tumor, surgical techniques applied, morbidity and mortality rates, to discuss which operation had to be applied, and to put forward the data's aided the choose of the operation technique. Methods: 81 patients performed surgical application for the diagnosis of gastric carcinoma in Trakya University Medical Faculty General Surgery Clinic were examined retrospectively between 1994-1999 33 of the cases (% 40.7) were female, 48 were male (% 59.3) and the mean age was 55 (34-80). The frequent symptoms were abdominal pain, weight loss, and weakness. Gastroduodenoscopy and biopsy, percutan ultrasonography, computerize tomography and gastroduodenal roentgenograms were used in the diagnosis as preoperative visualization methods. Results: When we examined the localization of the tumor; 33 were localized in antrum, 13 were in antrum and corpus, 11 were in instole stomach, 10 were in corpus, 5 were in cardia, 5 were in cardia and fundus, 4 were in the line of gastrojejunostomy. Total gastrectomv was performed in 22 of the cases. Subtotal gastrectomy and gastroenterostomy were performed in 20 cases, feeding jejunostomy was performed in 15 cases, explorative laparotomy and biopsy were performed in 13 cases and gastrojejunostomy was performed in 10 cases. Herring tube was placed in 1 patient. Morbidity rate was % 23 and mortality rate was % 6.1, the average hospitalization period was 11.2 days. Conclusion: We own of the opinion that most of the cases with gastric carcinoma have applied at advanced age and early diagnose can be made by the generalization of endoscopic and roentgenogramic techniques.