[Assessment of endoscopic, cytological and histological diagnostic methods in stomach polyps]

The results of endoscopic and morphological diagnostic methods for gastric polyps in 91 patients are analysed in detail. It is concluded that endoscopic examination makes it possible to reveal gastric polyps of any localization. However, to solve the problem of therapeutic policy it is necessary to examine the biopsy material from polyps, prior to their removal, both cytologically and histologically. This is due to the fact that small size polyps after endoscopic polypectomy are no longer suitable for morphological assay, whereas cytograms obtained from the transverse sections and surface of large polyps are equivalent diagnostically to cytograms of the biopsy specimens.