[Histological classification: evaluation of resection specimens of EMR/ESD--response evaluation after neoadjuvant therapy]. / Histologische Klassifikation: Beurteilung von Resektaten nach EMR/ESD - Regressionsstadien nach präoperativer Vorbehandlung.

The surveillance of patients with Barrett mucosa in the distal oesophagus leads to an increase of patients diagnosed with early cancer of the oesophagogastric junction and stomach with only superficial infiltration. Comparable to Asian countries where screening of patients at risk is recommended due to the high incidence of gastric cancer, endoscopic resection of early cancer in the stomach and distal oesophagus is increasing. In spite of the special endoscopic techniques--there are several requirements for the resected specimen which ensure its exact pathohistological evaluation. This is necessary to detect the exact depth of infiltration and the resection margins. To provide an exact pathohistological diagnosis is important for further therapeutic implications and prognosis. Advanced carcinomas of the oesophagus and stomach need multimodal treatment with radiation and chemotherapy. This has a special impact on the tumour which leads to pathohistological detectable changes as estimated in the so-called regression grading.

Extensive cortical involvement in leptomeningeal carcinomatosis.

We present a 77-year-old previously well patient with facial asymmetry and progressive weakness of the lower extremities. An initial MRI revealed slight contrast enhancement of the meninges. Three consecutive cerebrospinal fluid examinations demonstrated low glucose concentration, marked elevation of total protein and moderate pleocytosis. No tumor cells, fungi, acid-fast bacilli or mycobacterial DNA were found. The patient's level of consciousness deteriorated dramatically, and follow-up MRI showed widespread extensive cortical hyperintensities. The lesions showed restricted diffusion on diffusion-weighted images as well as low values on the corresponding apparent diffusion coefficient maps, the changes consistent with diffuse cytotoxic edema. Neuropathological examination findings were of leptomeningeal carcinomatosis (LMC) with diffuse continuous infiltration of the cerebral cortex, cerebellum and spinal cord. The autopsy revealed a subcentimetre adenocarcinoma of the lung. To our knowledge, this is the first report demonstrating extensive cortical involvement in adenocarcinomatous LMC.