DIAGNOSIS OF GASTRIC-CANCER - CURRENT STA TUS, PERSPECTIVES, CLINICALAND MORPHOLOGICAL ASPECTS

Having analysed 3000 verified cases of cancer of the stomach, the auth ors have made the conclusion that current x-ray investigations and com puted tomography are effective tools in diagnosis of gastric carcinoma especially in intramural carcinomas, propose the term ''intramural bl astomatous infiltrate'' (IBI) syndrome characterizing initial manifest ations of squamous cell carcinoma of the stomach. Morphologically, x-r ay symptoms corresponded either to infiltrative growth of gastric canc er or growth of connective tissue under the tumor. Such morphological changes in gastric cancer are likely to result from molecular-genetic polymorphism of the tumors. To make the diagnosis of gastric cancer as early as possible it is necessary to combine updated x-ray, endoscopi c and morphological techniques.