title: Oriental diagnosis in stomach cancer patients.
abstract: A new method of performing Oriental diagnosis using Meridian Imbalance Diagram which, consisting of 23 different ratios, has a highly discriminatory significance. Using this method, Oriental and Western diagnosis in the same patients were compared. To do this we compared the Meridian Imbalance Diagrams of 22 patients entering our hospital for surgical operations with those 19 in a healthy control group. Four significantly different ratios became evident. The postoperative reports showed that 10 of the patients were suffering from stomach cancer. The Oriental diagnosis data of this new group were then compared to the data of the control group. This time, 10 ratios were found to be significantly different. This shows the existence of a pattern of Oriental diagnosis corresponding to a specific Western diagnosis.
mesh_terms: D004056:Differential Threshold; D006801:Humans; D008518:Medicine, East Asian Traditional; D008722:Methods; D009619:Nociceptors / Q000502:physiology*; D010437:Peptic Ulcer / Q000175:diagnosis; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D013276:Stomach Ulcer / Q000175:diagnosis