Clinical Application of Gastric Cytology

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Abstract
IN the last ten years, much interest has been shown in gastric cytology as a useful clinical aid. This procedure is not new, however: a number of German investigators1 at the turn of this century reported good results utilizing a technic devised by Ehrlich. Direct examination of unstained and unfixed gastricaspiration material was made. One investigator2 obtained an accuracy of 86 per cent in 37 patients with gastric cancers. With the advent of diagnostic roentgenology and endoscopy in the succeeding decades, this technic of cell diagnosis fell into disuse. Papanicolaou,3 in 1946, revived interest in the field of gastric cytology . . .