title: [Cytologic characteristics of early stomach cancer].
abstract: The peculiarities of smears obtained from 23 patients with early cancer of the stomach were studied with respect to the degree of tumor invasion through gastric mucosa. A correlation was established between the background of smears, the specific gravity of cancer cells in smears and invasion. The presence of columnar cells with atypic nucleoli, elongated and teniform cells with hyperchromatic rod-shaped nuclei and single cancer cells was shown to be an indirect indication of carcinoma in situ and superficial cancer of the stomach. There is a relation between the morphology of tumor cells and its histological type rather than the degree of invasion through gastric mucosa.
mesh_terms: D003581:Cytodiagnosis / Q000379:methods; D005753:Gastric Mucosa / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology*
vernacular_title: K tsitologicheskoĭ kharakteristike rannego raka zheludka.