title: Diagnosis of autoimmune gastritis by high resolution magnification endoscopy.
abstract: Endoscopic visualisation of gastric atrophy is usually not feasible with conventional endoscopy. Magnifying endoscopy is helpful to analyze the subepithelial microvascular architecture as well as the mucosal surface microstructure without tissue biopsy. Using this technique we were able to describe the normal gastric microvasculature pattern and we also identified characteristic patterns in two cases of autoimmune atrophic gastritis.
authors.affiliation: Wolfson Digestive Diseases Centre, University Hospital, Nottingham, NG7 2UH, United Kingdom. gkanagnostopoulos@yahoo.gr
authors.forename: George-K
authors.initials: GK
authors.lastname: Anagnostopoulos
authors.forename: Krish
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ragunath
authors.forename: Anthony
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Shonde
authors.forename: Christopher J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Hawkey
authors.forename: Kenshi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yao
mesh_terms: D001327:Autoimmune Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D016099:Endoscopy, Gastrointestinal / Q000379:methods*; D005753:Gastric Mucosa / Q000473:pathology; D005756:Gastritis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D016481:Helicobacter Infections / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology; D016480:Helicobacter pylori; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged