Acute haemorrhagic gastritis is one of the most frequent causes of severe upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage. In series in which a positive diagnosis is made by endoscopy or laparotomy the incidence is approximately 25 %1,2,3. It is frequently related to recent aspirin ingestion5 and is also seen after major surgery or trauma ('stress' ulcers),6 but may occasionally appear in the absence of any...

Intestinal metaplasia of the stomach is a common metaplastic lesion associated with chronic gastritis and mucosal atrophy. However, squamous metaplasia is a comparatively rare condition. On endoscopy, squamous metaplasia is usually observed as a whitish mucosal lesion in the lesser curvature of the cardiac region of the stomach. When Lugol's iodine solution is applied, the lesion stains brown i...

Acute haemorrhagic gastritis is one of the most frequent causes of severe upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage. In series in which a positive diagnosis is made by endoscopy or laparotomy the incidence is approximately 25 %1,2,3. It is frequently related to recent aspirin ingestion5 and is also seen after major surgery or trauma ('stress' ulcers),6 but may occasionally appear in the absence of any...

Acute haemorrhagic gastritis is one of the most frequent causes of severe upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage. In series in which a positive diagnosis is made by endoscopy or laparotomy the incidence is approximately 25 %1,2,3. It is frequently related to recent aspirin ingestion5 and is also seen after major surgery or trauma ('stress' ulcers),6 but may occasionally appear in the absence of any...

Chronic gastritis has a high incidence in adults, causing progressive destruction of glandular structures, favoring the development of gastric atrophy. The association of chronic gastritis with intestinal type metaplasia of gastric mucosa has a poor outcome as intestinal metaplasia is regarded as a precancerous lesion. Metaplasia is common in patients with Helicobacter pylori infection and also...

Lymphoplasmacytic gastritis is a concern for toxicological pathologists reading preclinical, non-human primate toxicity studies because subtle gastric changes which could be treatment-related may be masked and gastritis lesions may be confused with treatment-related effects and thus a gastric finding may be incorrectly assigned as a treatment-related lesion. This paper discusses the incidence o...

Atrophic gastritis caused by Helicobacter pylori is the precursor lesion in the development of intestinal-type gastric adenocarcinoma. In animal models, atrophic gastritis induced by Helicobacter felis has been shown to be host dependent, developing in some mouse strains and not in others. The lipopolysaccharide (LPS) of H. pylori has been suggested to play a role in the induction of gastritis....

AIM To evaluate the association between polymorphisms XRCC1 Arg194Trp and Arg399Gln and XRCC3 Thr241Met and the risk for chronic gastritis and gastric cancer, in a Southeastern Brazilian population. METHODS Genotyping by PCR-RFLP was carried out on 202 patients with chronic gastritis (CG) and 160 patients with gastric cancer (GC), matched to 202 (C1) and 150 (C2) controls, respectively. RES...

Radiation gastritis has rarely been reported [1]. In this study, radiation gastritis was defined on endoscopy as a red lesion, usually larger than 2cm, that was sharply demarcated from the surrounding normal mucosa, and was found in a focal area of the stomach when erosive gastritis had been excluded. Overall, 31 patients were diagnosed as having radiation gastritis. Of these, 22, 13, and 3 als...

INTRODUCTION Gastritis Cystica Profunda is a well recognized entity which may occur several years after previous gastric surgery. This is a premalignant condition and may lead on to carcinoma of the stomach. CASE PRESENTATION We report a case of a 50-year-old man with epigastric pain and haematemesis. 28 years ago he had undergone partial gastrectomy and gastroenterostomy for benign gastric u...