[Use of the cytological method in benign pathological processes of the stomach (based on data from the prophylactic examination of persons with a high risk of cancer morbidity)].

The author examined the cytographs of gastritis, polyps and ulcers according to the materials of the prophylactic examination of a dispensary group, comprising 265 patients at high risk for gastric cancer. The differential features of the cytographs were examined in the cases in which the complex gastrogical investigation showed the concidence in the results of gastrofiberscopy, gastrobiopsy and cytological tests. The differential cytologic diagnosis of polyps and gastric ulcer is found to be possible in the presence of papillary structures in the first case, and in the second--a great variety of stromal infiltrate cell structure with the obligatory presence of lymphocytes, plasmatic cells, histiocytic elements, eosinophilous and neutrophilous leucoctyes. The differential cytological diagnosis between different histological forms of gastritis needs further studies.