This paper mainly introduces a rare special subtype of gastric cancer , the stomach hepatoid adenocarcinoma .This kind of adenocarcinoma in pathogenesis ,pathology ,treatment and prognosis has great differ-ence from traditional stomach cancer .Because it has both characteristics of gastric carcinoma and hepatocellular carcinoma,and is easily to result in missed diagnosis and misdiagnosis in clinic .It is necessary for us to distin-guish hepatoid adenocarcinoma of the stomach and gastric carcinoma .We may further improve the diagnosis rate of hepatoid adenocarcinoma of the stomach ,and reduce its mortality rate ,prolong the survival period .