RESULTS
Gastric polyps were found in 299 of 9771 patients who underwent gastroscopy, and 44 of these patients underwent more than one endoscopy procedure. Only the first endoscopic findings of the cases, who underwent repeated procedures, were included in the study. In conclusion, a total of 255 cases with gastric polyps were included in the study. 160 (62.7%) of these cases were female, 95 (37.3%) were male, and the mean age was 56.9 (min: 19, max: 95). A total of 336 polyps were detected in 255 cases, with 1.3 polyps per case. Histopathological features, size, localization and number of polyps are given in Table 1. Single polyp was detected in 157 cases (61.5%), while more than one polyp was detected in 98 cases (38.5%). The mean age was 56.3 ± 17.4 years in the patients who had a single polyp and 57.7 ± 12.4 years in the patients who had more than one polyp; there was no statistically significant difference between the two groups. Considering the size of the largest polyp, it was smaller than 5 mm in 230 cases (90.2%), between 6-10 mm in 17 cases (6.7%) and 10 mm and above in 8 cases (3.1%). While polyps were detected in only one anatomical region in 206 cases, they were detected in more than one region in 49 cases. Polyps were detected only in the cardia in 58 (23%) cases, only in the fundus in 41 (16%) cases, only in the corpus in 66 (26%) cases, only in the antrum in 41 (16%) cases and in multiple anatomical regions in 49 (19%) cases. In total, polyps were detected in the cardia at a rate of 27%, in the fundus at a rate of 25.9%, in the corpus at a rate of 31.9% and in the antrum at a rate of 15.2%. Histopathological evaluation of the lesions which were endoscopically considered polyp in 102 (40%) cases revealed gastritis or normal gastric mucosa. 36 (10.7%) of gastric polyps were found to be fundic gland polyps, 32 (9.5%) were found to be foveolar hyperplasia, 137 (40.8%) were found to be hyperplastic polyps, 5 (1.5%) were found to be xanthomas, and 6 (1.8%) were found to be neuroendocrine tumors. More than one histologic type was detected in 18 cases. Since polypectomy could not be performed, five (1.5%) cases did not have pathological examination. Considering the frequency of polyps by age range, polyps were detected in a total of 38 cases in the age range of 19-40 years with more than one polyp in 7 of them, in a total of 109 cases in the age range of 41-60 years with more than one polyp in 51 of them and in a total of 108 cases aged above 60 years with more than one polyp in 40 of them (Figure 1). The relationship of polyps with age, gender and HP according to histopathological features is given in Table 2. HP was studied in 195 of the patients included in the study, and it was found to be negative in 54 cases (27.7%) and positive in 141 cases (72.3%). No statistical significance was found between the histopathology of gastric polyps and HP positivity.