HISTOPATHOLOGICAL BASES OF ORGANIC DYSPEPSIA IN BENIN CITY – A HOSPITAL BASED STUDY OF 186 CASES

Dyspepsia is a symptom complex characterized by features which include epigastric pain or discomfort, belching, bloating and heart burn amongst others, one of the commonest indications for upper gastrointestinal endoscopy in Nigeria. The aim this study was to determine histopathological bases organic dyspepsia environment. Upper specimens from 186 patients diagnosed with our centre over 6-month period were materials study. These subjected tissue processing examination. vast majority cases had their stomach, mostly various forms chronic reactive gastritis, occasional gastric mucosal ulcers frank malignancies. Helicobacter pylori-associated gastritis continues underlie most causes