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Morphologic Characteristics

HOWARD F. RASKIN, M.D.; WALTER L. PALMER, M.D.; JOSEPH B. KIRSNER, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1961;107(6):872-884.

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The first attempt to diagnose gastrointestinal cancer by means of microscopic examination of the gastric content was made by such famous pathologists and clinicians as Rosenbach,¹ Ewald,² Boas,³ Rosenheim,⁴ Reineboth,⁵ and Cohnheim.⁶ In 1909 Marini⁷ reported that he had been able to diagnose 32 of 37 gastric cancers by means of the appearance of the unstained cells obtained by meticulous lavage. His excellent descriptions show that he understood the problem thoroughly. Marini predicted that "The day will come when physicians are as certain of the advantages of cytodiagnosis by lavage as they now are of the examination of the urinary sediment." With the advent, however, of the radiologic and endoscopic methods of diagnosis, cytology was forgotten for the next five decades. The revival of the procedure in recent years resulted primarily from the interest of Papanicolaou⁸ and Meigs⁹ and their associates . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
CHICAGO

From the Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Dec. 29, 1960.

Read before the American Clinical and Climatological Association in Cooperstown, N.Y., Oct. 7, 1960.

This study was made possible by a field investigational grant from the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Public Health Service, by the Stewart Fund to the University of Chicago and the Wallach Fund for Research in Gastrointestinal Disease.

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