Gastric atrophy | |||
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By site prevalence of gastric atrophy (504 H pylori positive consecutive patients) | IM absent | IM present | Total |
IM, intestinal metaplasia. | |||
Incisura angularis, number of patients whose gastric atrophy (with or without IM) was detected only in the incisura biopsy samples. | |||
Antrum, number of patients whose gastric atrophy (with or without IM) was detected only in the antral biopsy samples. | |||
Antrum and incisura angularis, number of patients whose gastric atrophy (with or without IM) was detected in both the antral and the incisura angularis biopsy samples. | |||
Corpus, number of patients whose gastric atrophy (with IM) was detected only in the corpus biopsy samples. | |||
Corpus only | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Antrum only | 3 | 10 | 13 |
Antrum and incisura angularis | 6 | 14 | 20 |
Incisura angularis only | 9 | 20 | 29 |
Total | 18 | 45 | 63 |