Correlation of Gross Gastroscopic Findings with Gastroscopic Biopsy in Gastritis

Abstract

THE development of the Wolf-Schindler flexible gastroscope in 19321 followed by the Benedict flexible operating gastroscope in 19482 and the flexible gastric-biopsy tube invented in 1949 by Wood et al.3 has stimulated a great deal of interest in gastritis. Although a previous attempt at correlation of gastroscopic and pathological findings in gastritis was made by Benedict and Mallory4 in 1943, the study was based not on biopsy but on surgical specimens resected for ulcer or carcinoma. As soon as gastroscopic biopsy became available it was evident that the concept of gastritis had to be revised. In 1949 Benedi-t5 6 7 stated that . . .