[Elevaled lesions of the stomach]

Between June 1959 and June 1975 at the Central Hospital No. 2 of the Social Security of Peru, 186 patients were found with elevated stomach lesions. From these the authors selected 92 with 94 lesions studied histologically that corresponded to polyps, 11 pseudo-polyps, 3 polyposis, 1 pseudopolyposis, 10 submucous tumors, and 8 malignant lesions. The rest corresponded to gastritis, atypias or normal mucosa.