Out of 4500 patients with gastro-intesinal disorders coming to our department from January 1970 to May 1994,31 of them were fund to be suffering from gastric adenomotous polyps(GAP).The detective rat of GAP was 0.7% with two malignant adenomatous polyps detected and 13 percent of GAP cases complicated with adenocarcinoma of the stomach(4/31).The size of the polyps is closely relevant to the malignant change.Twelve patients underwent surgical therapy and 19 gastrocopic polypectomy.On follow up.2 cases of recurrence were detected in both surgical and endoscopic removal proups.
