Abstract
The present study was performed to establish a method for diagnosis of mild esophagitis by using exfoliative cytology. The exfoliative cytology was made on 25 cases with mild esophagitis and or 20 cases without esophagitis.
The cytological findings of mild esophagitis were compared with that ot normal esophagus, and the characteristics and the chronological change of cytologic smear of esophagitis after being treated locally were reported and shown in photographs. It was revealed that there were rather many cases with mild esophagitis which did not show any clinical local symptom.
