title: Gastroscopy and directed biopsy in the diagnosis of primary gastric lymphomas. Report of 16 personal cases.
abstract: The results of an endoscopic bioptic study of 16 cases of primary gastric malignant lymphoma are reported. Endoscopic observation suggested a diagnosis of malignant lymphoma in 50% of the cases, while directed biopsy gave a similar diagnosis in 75% of the cases. A correlation of the endoscopic and the histologic results gave a diagnostic reliability or 87.5% (14 of 16 cases). In order to obtain also in this group of neoplasms the diagnostic positivity already obtained in the epithelial forms, both improvement in the bioptic sampling technique and a better knowledge of the endoscopic morphology of the lesions must be achieved.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001706:Biopsy / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D005773:Gastroscopy; D006801:Humans; D008223:Lymphoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology