title: Chronic erosive gastritis on morphological analysis.
abstract: The present study was carried out to systematize the histopathological markers of chronic erosive gastritis referred to also as gastritis varioliformis (GV). The study population consisted of 74 patients aged 20 to 69 years with gastroscopic GV. The samples were obtained from the erosion site and representative areas of the prepyloric region and gastric body. In routine microscopic examinations we evaluated the severity, type and location of changes in the gastric mucosa. Helicobacter pylori in tissue samples was identified with Giemsa's staining. Gastroscopic GV is accompanied in 76% by microscopic gastritis. In the vicinity of GV the gastric mucosa shows inflammation signs but less severe. Regenerative glandular hyperplasia of the gastric pit layer is the most frequent microscopic marker of GV.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathomorphology, Military Medical Academy, Lódź.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Kozłowski
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Kula
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kulig
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Walasek
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rudziński
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001706:Biopsy; D002908:Chronic Disease; D005260:Female; D005753:Gastric Mucosa / Q000473:pathology*; D005756:Gastritis / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology*; D016480:Helicobacter pylori / Q000302:isolation & purification; D006801:Humans; D006965:Hyperplasia; D008297:Male; D008679:Metaplasia; D008875:Middle Aged