Pathological diagnosis is maybe non-essential for special gastric cancer: Case reports and review

Table 1 Gastroscope statistics from the database of the First Affiliated Hospital n (%)

Items	Total	F (-) 1st	(+) 1st	F (-) 2nd	(+) 2nd	F (-)≥3	(+)≥3
Borrmann IV	194	21 (10.8)	173 (89.2)	10 (5.2)	11 (5.7)	6 (3.1)	4 (2.1)
Early type	165	11 (6.7)	154 (93.3)	1 (0.6)	10 (6.1)	0 (0.0)	1 (0.6)
Other types	1388	4 (0.3)	1384 (99.7)	0 (0.0)	4 (0.3)	0 (0.0)	0 (0.0)
Total	1747	36 (2.1)	1711 (97.9)	11 (0.6)	25 (1.4)	6 (0.3)	5 (0.3)

F (-) 1^st: False negative diagnosis of the 1^st biopsy; (+) 1^st: True positive diagnosis of the 1^st biopsy; 2^nd: The 2^nd biopsy; ≥ 3: More than 3 times of biopsies.