CHRONIC HYPERTROPHIC ANTRUM GASTRITIS

Russell Body Gastritis: an Unusually Presentation of the Chronic Gastritis

Russell body gastritis is a rare form of chronic gastritis. It is characterized by the invasion of lamina propria by plasma cells that included eosinophilic cytoplasmic inclusion. In the literature, most of the cases are associated with Helicobacter pylori. Russell body gastritis and Helicobacter pylori infection are generally seen together incidentally. We report here two cases of Russell body...

Ménétrier disease with antrum polyposis and gastritis cystica profunda.

A 46-year-old man was admitted with epigastric pain, weight loss, and hypoalbuminemia. He had no history of gastric surgery. A gastroscopy revealed giant polypoid gastric folds within the gastric body and fundus (●" Fig.1) and several polyps with central erosion in the gastric antrum (●" Fig.2). Biopsies of the gastric body and antral lesions revealed chronic gastritis. Endoscopic ultrasound sh...

Chronic Gastritis

Proper definition, recognition and classification of chronic gastritis are fundamental for its successful therapy. Gastric inflammation based on clinical/endoscopic classification is not a pathomorphologically homogenous diagnostic group. From histopathological point of view, it seems most likely that chronic gastritis is characterized by morphological indices of chronic inflammatory changes in...

Chronic gastritis

Prevalence of chronic gastritis has markedly declined in developed populations during the past decades. However, chronic gastritis is still one of the most common serious pandemic infections with such severe killing sequelae as peptic ulcer or gastric cancer. Globally, on average, even more than half of people may have a chronic gastritis at present. Helicobacter pylori infection in childhood i...

Chronic lymphocytic gastritis.