title: Chronic gastritis--a simple classification.
abstract: Gastric mucosal biopsy specimens from 241 patients with examined. Chronic inflammatory cellular infiltration of the gastric mucosa was found in 181 patients and this graded as mild, moderate or severe. The presence or absence of atrophy or intestinal metaplasia was noted. True superficial gastritis was observed in only three cases.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001284:Atrophy; D002908:Chronic Disease; D005260:Female; D005753:Gastric Mucosa / Q000473:pathology*; D005756:Gastritis / Q000145:classification* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008679:Metaplasia; D008875:Middle Aged