Problems arising from Eastern and Western classification systems for gastrointestinal dysplasia and carcinoma: Are they resolvable?

Histopathology

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 197-202

  Riddell, R H ^a   Iwafuchi, M ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE   (Canada)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cancer; Classification; Dysplasia; Eastern; Gastric carcinoma; Japanese; Regeneration; Stomach; Terminology; Western

Indexed keywords

CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER GRADING; CANCER STAGING; CYTODIAGNOSIS; DYSPLASIA; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STOMACH BIOPSY; STOMACH CANCER;

EUROPE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; JAPAN; NORTH AMERICA; PATHOLOGY; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 0031658838     PISSN: 03090167     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2559.1998.00520.x     Document Type: Review

References (6)

1. Schlemper RJ, Itabashi M, Kato Y et al. Differences in diagnostic criteria for gastric carcinoma between Japanese and Western pathologists. Lancet 1997; 349; 1725-1729.
2. Schlemper RJ, Itabashi M, Kato Y et al. Differences in the diagnostic criteria used by Japanese and Western pathologists to diagnose colorectal carcinoma. Cancer 1998; 82; 60-69.
3. Japanese Research Society for Gastric Cancer. Japanese Classification of Gastric Carcinoma, 1st English edn. Tokyo: Kanehara, 1995.
4. Riddell RH, Goldman H, Ransohoff DF et al. Dysplasia in inflammatory bowel disease. Standardized classification with clinical implications. Hum. Pathol. 1983; 14; 931-968.
5. Uemura N, Mukai T, Okamoto S et al. Helicobacter pylori eradication inhibits the growth of intestinal type of gastric carcinoma in initial stage. Gastroenterology 1996; 110; A282.
6. Lauwers GY, Shimizu M, Correa P et al. Evaluation of gastric biopsies for neoplasia: differences between Japan and the West. Mod. Pathol. 1998; 11; 66A (abstract).