Conclusions
If we compare the two methods, histologic and gastroscopic, regarding their value for the establishment of the entity; “chronic gastritis,” we find:
-
(1)
The positive findings in histology do not prove the existence of a clinical “disease” of the stomach. Almost every adult shows some interstitial changes in the stomach mucosa as compared with the newborn. To say that ulcer, cancer, or blood diseases, etc., are the result of such histologic changes is permissible only when the changes are very marked.
-
(2)
Gastroscopy allows repeated study of the interior of quite healthy individuals and the establishment of a morphologic endoscopy for the normal stomach. Changes of this picture prove, with greatest certainty, the presence of an organic lesion, especially of chronic gastritis. Minor pathologic changes are of the highest clinical and scientific significance.
-
(3)
A method to harmonize anatomic and gastroscopic findings urgently is needed.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Bennet, T. L., and Ryle, J.: A study of normal gastric function based on the investigation of 100 healthy men, etc.Guy’s Hosp. Rep., Vol. 71, p. 286, 1921.
v. Bergmann, G.: Das Gastritisproblem.Dtsch. med. Wchschr., No. 43, p. 1741, 1929.
Faber, Knud: Gastritis and its consequences. Humphrey Milford, Oxford Univers. Press, London, etc., 1935.
Gutzeit, Kurt: D. Gastroskopie im Rahmen d. klin. Megendiagnostik.Erg. d. inn. Med. u. Kinderheilk., Vol. 35, p. 1, 1929.
Henning, N.: Histaminprobe u. endosk. Bild d. Magenschleimhaut bei Achylie.Muen. med. Wchschr., No. 37, p. 1561, 1929.
Henning, N.: D. bish.Erg. u. d. klin., Wert d. Gastroskopie,Erg. Med., 16:539, 1931.
Henning, N.: D. Entzuendung d. Magens. Ambr. Barth, Leipzig, 1934.
Heyer, K.: D. Magensekretion de. Menschen unter bes. Beruecksichtigung d. p sych. Einfluesse.Arch. Verdauungskr., 27:227, 1921.
Hurst, A. F.: The unity of gastric disorders.British Med. J., July 15, 89, 1933.
Katsch, G. von.: Gastritisproblemen.Jahresk. aerztl. Fortbild., March, 1929.
Konjetzny, G. E.: D. Entzuendung d. Magens in Henke-Lubarsch’s.Handbuch d. speziellen patholog., Anatomie Bd. 4, Heft 2, Berlin, Julius Springer, 1928.
Kontjetzny, G. E.: D. ent. z. Grundlage d. typischen Geschwuersbildung im Magen und duodenum, Berlin, Springer, 1930.
Korbsch, R.: D. Gastroskopie u. ihre neueren Ergebn, Berlin, S. Karger, 1926.
Moutier, Fr.: Les gastrites sous le controle de la gastroscopie.Presse medicale, No. 92, p. 1852, 1933.
Moutier, Fr.: Traite de Gastroscopie, Paris, Masson, 1935.
Paschkis, K., and Orator, V.: Beitraege zur Normal histologie d. menschl. Magens.Z. Anat., Abt. 1:67, 1923.
Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich: The work of the digestive glands Transl., by W. H. Thompson, London, Griffin, 1902.
Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich: Conditioned reflexes, etc., London, Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1927.
Schindler, R.: d. diagn. Bedeutung d. Gastroskopie.Muen. med. Wchschr., Nr. 15, p. 535, 1922.
Schindler, R.: Lehrbuch u. Atlas d. Gastroscopie Muenchen, Lehmann, 1923.
Schindler, R.: Klin. Diagn. d. chron. Gastritis.Muen. med. Wchschr., Nr. 12, p. 482, 1926.
Schindler, R.: D. Photographie d. Magenschleimhaut.Muen. med. Wchschr., Nr. 39, p. 1560, 1932.
Schindler, R.: Diagnostic Gastroscopy.J. A. M. A., 105, p. 352, 1935.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Schindler, R. Relationship of histologic and gastroscopic findings in the diagnosis of chronic gastritis: A brief review. American Journal of Digestive Diseases and Nutrition 3, 153–155 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02999098
Received:
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02999098