1979 Volume 21 Issue 9 Pages 1071-1077_1
In spite of tremendous progress made in the diagnosis of early gastric cancer, many problems remains still unsolued in the accurate diagnosis of Type III early gastric cancer. Type III early gastric cancer can be interpreted as III+II b type, not associated with distinct IIc. In retrospective study three cases of type III early gastric cancer were examined in detail. But even macroscopically, it was almost inpossible to differenciat Type III from benign gastric ulcer on the diagnosis of Case (1) and (2), As a matter of fact, clinical differenciation of the type III from a benign gastric ulcer is extremely difficuet.