RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Familial giant hypertrophic gastritis (Ménétrier's disease).
JF Gut
JO Gut
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and British Society of Gastroenterology
SP 1517
OP 1521
DO 10.1136/gut.28.11.1517
VO 28
IS 11
A1 B Larsen
A1 U Tarp
A1 E Kristensen
YR 1987
UL http://gut.bmj.com/content/28/11/1517.abstract
AB Familial giant hypertrophic gastritis involving three generations is reported. A review of the literature, where approximately 200 cases are described, showed only few cases of familial occurrence of this disease, and only in siblings. Our findings suggest dominant heredity, but considering the sparsity of familial occurrence reported earlier, heredity seems to be of only minor pathogenetic significance.