The Borderline Between Benign and Malignant Lesions in the Stomach

Abstract

During the last twenty years our interest has centred around the detection and histological diagnosis of early gastric cancer. The term “early malignant lesion” varies according to the point of view of the observer. In this paper an attempt will be made to describe changes which precede such lesions as the superficial carcinoma. We have, in fact, looked for criteria which allow with a measure of certainty the histological diagnosis of carcinoma in situ or intra-epithelial malignancy.