RESUMO
This study was carried out in the Department of Pathology of Islami Bank Hospital, Barisal to correlate between histopathological and endoscopic diagnosis of suspected malignant gastric lesions. A total of sixty six endoscopic biopsies were studied retrospectively, during the period from February 2011 to January 2014. The biopsies were retrieved using video-endoscope. These were transferred to a bottle containing 10% neutral formalin, processed and stained routinely with Haematoxylin and Eosin. Out of 66(100%) gastric endoscopic biopsies, 29(44%) were malignant. The correlation of endoscopic and histopathological diagnosis of these gastric lesions was 44%. Endoscopic examination and biopsy is a convenient procedure for accurate objective assessment of patients with symptoms of gastrointestinal tract. Endoscopy is incomplete without biopsy and histopathology is the gold standard for the diagnosis of endoscopically detected lesions.
