Objective To investigate the clinico pathological characteristics of gastric carcinoma in young people below 40 years of age.Methods The clinical data of 238 young patients with gastric carcinoma below 40 years of age,hospitalized in our hospital were retrospectively analyzed.Results These cases accounted for 7.5%of all gastric cancer patients during the same period.There were more cases with poorly differentiated(46.2%) and muco cellular(31.5%)adenocarcinoma histologically.The most common gross type was Bo...