Biopsy and cytology in the diagnosis of early gastric cancer: 10-year experience with direct vision techniques at a Japanese institution.

摘要: The results of direct vision biopsy and cytology for the diagnosis early gastric cancer during periods from 1964 to 1969 1970 1974 were compared. From diagnostic accuracy was 94.7% at initial examination 97.3% in final diagnosis, while washing under gave a 83.0% first 93.3% cytologic diagnosis. Because such high yield biopsy, it procedure choice 1974, giving 96.7% 99.4% with only one suspicious case. by brushing has, therefore, become supplementary cases where stenosis proximal tumor obscures definitive tissue.