title: Hypertrophic lymphocytic gastritis with a gastric carcinoma.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Hospital Heilig Hart, Roeselare, Belgium.
authors.forename: K M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Vandenborre
authors.forename: G L
authors.initials: GL
authors.lastname: Ghillebert
authors.forename: L J
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Rutgeerts
authors.forename: K R
authors.initials: KR
authors.lastname: Geboes
authors.forename: P J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Rutgeerts
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Verbanck
authors.forename: W R
authors.initials: WR
authors.lastname: Tanghe
mesh_terms: 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