[The so called early stomach carcinoma and its histological definition]

The histological findings of twenty bioptically diagnosed early cancers of the stomach are described. In the delimitation of the so-called borderline-lesions the intestinal metaplasia in the mucous membrane of the stomach must particularly be taken into consideration. The differentiated ripe form of the intestinal metaplasia is no precancerosis. However, within the process of intestinalisation atypias may appear, which represent possible transitional forms to carcinoma.