[Clinical importance of histological typing of gastric carcinoma (author's transl)].

104 gastric carcinomata from 100 gastrectomies were classified in parallel by the Lauren and Ming methods. Lauren's intestinal type corresponds extensively with Ming's expansive type, Lauren's diffuse type to Ming's infiltrative type. The advantage of Ming's classification is that practically every tumor can be classified by it. The infiltrative type of gastric carcinoma is characterized by indistinct delimination and often extensive spread which can only be recognized histologically in macroscopically inconspicuous stomach wall. A far advanced tumor stage is to be reckoned with here. In the statistics of successful cures and the decision between subtotal resection and gastrectomy the tumor type should also be taken into consideration.