Hypertrophic lymphocytic gastritis with a gastric carcinoma.
Lymphocytic gastritis is a recently described gastric inflammation, characterized by an increased intraepithelial lymphocytic infiltrate mainly composed of T-lymphocytes. Endoscopically it correlates mainly with diffuse varioliform gastritis. Ménétrier's disease is a hypertrophic gastropathy with enlarged gastric folds. The histological picture is that of foveolar hyperplasia and glandular cysts of the mucosa. A few small series of lymphocytic gastritis with microscopic and endoscopic features of Ménétrier's disease have been published previously. We describe a similar case associated with a gastric adenocarcinoma.
Vandenborre
K M
KM
Department of Medicine, Hospital Heilig Hart, Roeselare, Belgium.
Ghillebert
G L
GL
Rutgeerts
L J
LJ
Geboes
K R
KR
Rutgeerts
P J
PJ
Verbanck
J J
JJ
Tanghe
W R
WR
D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005758:Gastritis, Hypertrophic / Q000150:complications / Q000276:immunology / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008214:Lymphocytes / Q000276:immunology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed