[Cytomorphometric studies on normal stomach mucosa, precancerous diseases and stomach cancer].

By means of a graduated microscope eyepiece-micrometer cytomorphometric investigations have been carried out on paraffin sections from 120 patients with normal gastric mucosa, gastritis, gastric ulcer, polyps and carcinoma of the stomach. In normal mucosa and gastritis, the number of the cell groups is low, the curves are predominantly single peaked, shifted to the left and the sizes of the nuclei are small. In gastric ulcer, polyps and carcinoma the number of the cell groups is high, the curves are multi-peaked, without any well expressed peaks, shifted to the right and the sizes of the nuclei are large.