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C Gompel

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[Jules Bordet Institute: past, present and future].

Since the end of the 19th century, the Université Libre de Bruxelles and the Conseil des Hospices, in charge of health problems in the city of Brussels, assume the responsibility of cancer patients. A first cancer clinic is organized in 1906 followed in 1925 by the building of a cancer pavilion on the site of the Hôpital Brugmann. In 1935 the building of a new more important cancer institute is decided by the Commission d'Assistance Publique and the Université Libre de Bruxelles. The Institut Bordet was inaugurated in 1939. In 1950, the appointment of Albert Claude, future Nobel Prize, as scientific director of the Institute inaugurated a period of important and growing medical and scientific activities. The Institute became a multidisciplinary center with medical departments (clinical biology, medicine, pathology, radiodiagnosis, radiotherapy, surgery) and investigation laboratories. There is a project to build a new Institute on the campus of the Hôpital Erasme.

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Identification of Campylobacter pylori in gastric biopsy smears.

The use of gastric biopsy imprint smears to diagnose Campylobacter pylori was compared with the use of tissue sections and cultures. Multiple gastric biopsies were taken from the mucosa of 42 patients during endoscopy. Imprint smears were prepared from the samples used to make tissue sections; other samples were used for microbiologic culture. There was a good concordance (93%) between the morphologic diagnosis of C pylori in the air-dried, Giemsa-stained smears and the tissue sections; the cytologic preparations were clearly positive in six cases (14%) whose sections contained low numbers of the organisms. There was a concordance of 83% between the combined morphologic techniques and the bacteriologic culture. Six positive cases were detected only by the morphologic techniques while one positive case was detected only by bacteriologic culture. C pylori was identified in one or more preparations of the antral biopsy specimens in 23 (55%) of the 42 cases, including 23 (74%) of the 31 cases with a final diagnosis of gastritis or ulcer. These results show the usefulness of the cytologic study of gastric biopsy smears in diagnosing C pylori infections.

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