[Morphometric characteristics of tissue basophils in cancerous and precancerous diseases of the skin].

Skin of 60 patients with squamous cell non-keratinizing carcinoma, basaliomas, Bowen carcinoma, hyperkeratosis, papillomatosis and chronic inflammation was studied using routine histological and histochemical methods. The number of basophils was calculated; the index of their heparin saturation, degree of granulation was determined by division of a number of highly granulated labrocytes by a number of the least granulated labrocytes and multiplying the result by 100. The results may serve as a criterion in the evaluation of the degree of skin carcinoma cataplasia.