(Received for publication, August 31, 1959) It goes without saying that x-ray examination is of highest value in the diagnosis of gastric cancer in general. There are a number of com plementary diagnostic methods next in importance to it and particularly, cytological diagnosis of gastric cancer has recently come to be evaluated very highly.1-26) The present authors have already published severa...

BACKGROUND Pleomorphic carcinoma (PC) is a rare pulmonary malignancy. Because of its rarity and histological heterogeneity, cytopathologists might suspect PC only rarely on the basis of its cytological specimen. In addition, cytological findings from fine needle aspiration (FNA) specimens have rarely been described. Hence, we investigated the cytological features of FNA in the cases of PC. ME...