[Relationship between type III intestinal metaplasia, age and gastric cancer. 560 biopsies].

Objective: A significant association between type III intestinal metaplasia and gastric adenocarcinoma has been demonstrated in gastrectomy and biopsy series. We investigated the effect of age in a large series of gastric biopsies in order to determine whether this association is age dependent or independent.

Methods: Histochemistry examinations were performed in 560 gastric biopsies showing intestinal metaplasia.

[Ovarian tumor with hepatoid differentiation. Discussion and review of the literature. Report of a case].

One case of hepatoid carcinoma of the ovary is described, and a review of the literature is performed. This tumor is now considered as a variety of common epithelial tumor of the ovary and must be distinguished from other ovarian-neoplasms, especially from hepatoid yolk sac tumors.

[A simple method for doubling the cytocentrifugation capacity of the Shandon Cytospin 2].

The disposable simple cell Cytocell 2 for Cytospin 2 Shandon cytocentrifuge offers the theoretical possibility of making two areas cell deposit on one microscope slide. Unfortunately, this is not realizable because the clip only presses the inferior part of the Cytocell 2. The authors propose a simple mean to resolve this problem.