The Role of the Biopsy in Diagnosis of Early Gastric Cancer |
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Authors: | ITABASHI, MASAYUKI HIROTA, TERUYUKI UNAKAMI, MASAMITSU UENO, MASAMI OGURO, YANAO YAMADA, TATSUYA KITAOKA, HISAZO ICHIKAWA, HEIZABURO |
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Affiliation: | 1)Department of Internal Medicine 2)Department of Diagnostic Radiology 3)Department of Surgery 4)National Cancer Center Hospital Division of Pathology, National Cancer Center Research Institute |
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Abstract: | In order to determine the reliability of endoscopic biopsy indiagnosis of early gastric cancer, and to clarify the problemswith biopsies, preoperative endoscopic biopsies from 771 earlygastric cancer cases were reviewed and analyzed clinicopathologicallyin comparison with surgically resected specimens. The 771 cancerswere surgically resected at the National Cancer Center Hospitalduring the period from 1972 to 1982. Definite histological diagnosiswas obtained in 87.4% of the carcinomas at the initial biopsies.Repeated biopsy raised the percentage of correct definite diagnosesto 96.1%. False-negative (including suspicion of cancer) diagnosiswas most frequent in the case of depressed lesions (50 lesions).Half of the false negatives were found to be due to samplingerrors by the endoscopists. The other half of these 50 lesionswere diagnosed as "suspicious of malignancy" because of thehistological difficulty in differentiating early gastric cancerfrom regenerative atypia with intestinal metaplasia, or becausethere was not enough information, or for the other reasons.Most of the 31 false-negative diagnoses at the initial biopsyfrom elevated lesions were reported as adenoma (group III) orsuspicious of carcinoma (group IV), indicating that differentialdiagnosis between well-differentiated adenocarcinoma and adenomais very difficult. The result of the present study suggeststhat repeated biopsy from correct sites and discussion of thelesions between clinicians and pathologists are very important. **Present affiliation: Toranomon Hospital, Toranomon 2-2-2,Minato-ku, Tokyo 105, Japan. |
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