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Lactic dehydrogenase activity in gastric juice for the diagnosis of gastric cancer

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  1. From the Department of Internal Medicine, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, O.

    Fotios Smyrniotis M.D., Steven Schenker M.D., James O'Donnell Ph.D. & Leon Schiff M.D.

  2. the Gastric Laboratory, Cincinnati General Hospital, Cincinnati, O.

    Fotios Smyrniotis M.D., Steven Schenker M.D., James O'Donnell Ph.D. & Leon Schiff M.D.

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This study was aided by Grant T-200 from the American Cancer Society, and by assistance from the Milton L. Brown Memorial Fund, and the Winfieid Baird Foundation.

Lederle Laboratories, Division of the American Cyanamid Company, Pearl River, N. Y. generously supplied Diamox for parenteral use in this study.

The authors wish to express their gratitude to Drs. Ben I. Friedman, Joseph Ganim, Sander Goodman, Stuart Safdi, and Nathan Shapiro, for permission to study their cases; to Dr. John J. Will for the determinations of the quantitative hemoglobin; and to Miss Marian Piller, Miss Elaine Besterman, and Mr. Stephen Hilliard for technical assistance.

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Smyrniotis, F., Schenker, S., O'Donnell, J. et al. Lactic dehydrogenase activity in gastric juice for the diagnosis of gastric cancer. Digest Dis Sci 7, 712–726 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02236109

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