title: [The value of gastrocytograms in gastroenterologic practice].
abstract: Gastroenterological diagnostics practised in out-patient departments requires a good correlation between costs and rate of success; for this reason the swab probe technique was used for examining the morphology of the stomach. Evaluating the gastrocytogram will have to suffice as a practical method until the day when gastroscopy, cytological tests or biopsies can be done on a large scale in out-patient departments. Since -- despite constant probing for tumors -- only a minority of the patients reveal any lesions of a suspect nature in the X-ray, the majority of cases involves gastritis. The gastrocytogram may replace some of the X-rays and secretion analyses; however, it does not constitute an alternative to purposive gastroscopy and biopsy. Eosinophiles and micro-adenomatous cell associations were found to occur in some cases of atrophic gastritis as a special cytological characteristic.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003581:Cytodiagnosis; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005753:Gastric Mucosa / Q000473:pathology*; D005756:Gastritis / Q000175:diagnosis; D005767:Gastrointestinal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis
vernacular_title: Uber den Wert des Gastrozytogramms in der gastroenterologischen Praxis