[Cytologic diagnosis of stomach polyps]

Cytological and cytochemical studies of smears, taken during gastrofibroscopy in 36 patients with polyps of the stomach, with the aim to ascertain cytological and cytochemical characteristics of gastric polyps depending upon their histological structure were carried out. It was established that in the case of simple glandular polyps, because of nonspecificity of morphological changes in the stomachal epithelium, a cytological investigation in establishing clinical diagnosis plays a secondary role; the presence of goblet cells in smears makes it possible to verify polyps by means of enterolysis; identification in smears of cells of the proliferating epithelium, possessing a set of pathognomic signs, enables one to diagnose cytologically a corresponding form of polyps.