title: [Histocytopathological study on gastric mucosa of spleen deficiency syndrome].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To explore the pictures of gastric mucosa of Spleen deficiency syndrome, and the relationship between the degree of pathological changes of gastric mucosa and types of Spleen deficiency syndrome.
  
  
  METHODS
  One hundred and eighty-eight Spleen deficiency patients with organic diseases of heart, lung, liver, gallbladder, pancreas, intestine and kidney excluded were examined their gastric mucosa. Tests of histopathology and subcellular ultrastructure were conducted by using optical microscope, electron scanning microscope, electron transmission microscope and histochemical staining methods.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The gastric mucosa of Spleen Qi deficiency and Spleen Yang deficiency patients could either be affected with organic lesion (type G) or unaffected (type F); the gastric mucosa of Spleen Yin deficiency and Spleen deficiency with Qi stagnation were both affected by gastric lesions, and the degree of their lesions was more serious than that of Spleen Qi deficiency of type G and Spleen Yang deficiency of type G, P < 0.05-0.01.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Pathological changes did not necessarily occur in the gastric mucosa of Spleen deficiency patients; the degree of pathological changes was relevant with the evolution of Spleen deficiency types.
authors.affiliation: Third People's Hospital of Wuxi, Jiangsu (214041).
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Yin
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: X
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: He
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D005753:Gastric Mucosa / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional; D008875:Middle Aged; D013158:Splenic Diseases / Q000473:pathology*; D016711:Yang Deficiency / Q000473:pathology*; D016710:Yin Deficiency / Q000473:pathology*