A Clinicopathologic Study of 42 Patients with Granulomatous Gastritis: Is There Really an "Idiopathic" Granulomatous Gastritis?

American Journal of Surgical Pathology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 462-470

  Shapiro, Joel L ^a   Goldblum, John R ^a   Petras, Robert E ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Crohn's disease; Granuloma; Helicohacter pylori infection; Idiopathic granulomatous gastritis; Sarcoidosis

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC GASTRITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROHN DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; FEMALE; GASTRITIS; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MENETRIER DISEASE; MUCOSA ASSOCIATED LYMPHOID TISSUE LYMPHOMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SARCOIDOSIS; ULCER PERFORATION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROHN DISEASE; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTRITIS; GASTRITIS, HYPERTROPHIC; GRANULOMA; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEPTIC ULCER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SARCOIDOSIS;

EID: 0029883964     PISSN: 01475185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000478-199604000-00009     Document Type: Article

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