title: [Glandulo-cystic polyps of the stomach. Apropos of 12 cases and review of the literature].
abstract: We report 12 cases of cystic glandular fundic polyps detected in 7 women and 5 men. As in the 238 similar previously reported cases these lesions were always located in the fundic gastric mucosae and did not involve the muscularis mucosae. They were discovered by endoscopy in patients with minor abdominal discomfort. They were less than 5 mm in diameter and were more often multiple and sessile; only a few of them were pedunculate. They consisted of mucosal cysts lined with cuboidal, parietal or chief cells and surrounded with a normal lamina propria. If in 213 cases, these polyps were not associated with polyposis coli in 37 cases they occurred with a Gardner's syndrome or a familial adenomatosis coli. These benign lesions are without malignant potential. Careful gastroscopic follow up with biopsy is recommended for all patients with multiple gastric polyps. The etio-pathogenesis of these polyps is still unknown. Their relationship to familial polyposis coli or to Gardner's syndrome is obscure.
mesh_terms: D011125:Adenomatous Polyposis Coli / Q000150:complications; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003560:Cysts / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D005736:Gardner Syndrome / Q000150:complications; D005773:Gastroscopy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009378:Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / Q000473:pathology; D011127:Polyps / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology*; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology*
vernacular_title: Les polypes glandulo-kystiques de l'estomac. A propos de 12 cas et revue de la littérature.