[Endoscopic diagnosis of postoperative stomach cancer]

The authors examined endoscopically the esophagus and stomach in 309 patients, previously operated upon for gastric cancer (258), ulcer of the stomach or duodenum (36) and benign gastric tumors (15). They estimated the value of this method for establishing diagnosis of the operated stomach cancer and also the importance of histological and cytological methods in the complex diagnosis of this pathology. Moreover, roentgeno-endoscopic correlations were made. Cancer of the operated stomach was detected in 59 patients, it was suspected in 8, other lesions were found in 194. no changes in the operated stomach were found in 48. It is stated that endoscopy is more advantageous than roentgenological examination in establishing the diagnosis of tumor pathology of the operated stomach. Histological and cytological findings are of considerable value in making the correct diagnosis. These methods are mostly informative in an exophytic form of the tumor growth.