Regular arrangement of collecting venules (RAC): A characteristic endoscopic feature of Helicobacter pylori-negative normal stomach and its relationship with esophago-gastric adenocarcinoma

Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 443-452

  Yagi, Kazuyoshi ^a   Aruga, Yukio ^a   Nakamura, Atsuo ^a   Sekine, Atsuo ^a  

^a Niigata Prefectural Yoshida Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Endoscopy; Gastric cancer; Gastritis; Helicobacter pylori; Regular arrangement of collecting venules (RAC)

Indexed keywords

NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

BACTERIUM DETECTION; BARRETT ESOPHAGUS; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENESIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; GASTRITIS; GASTROSCOPY; HEART CANCER; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTESTINE METAPLASIA; JAPAN; METHODOLOGY; MYOCARDITIS; NAUSEA; POLYP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STOMACH ADENOCARCINOMA; STOMACH ANTRUM; STOMACH BIOPSY; STOMACH BLOOD FLOW; VENULE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; ESOPHAGOGASTRIC JUNCTION; FEMALE; GASTRIC MUCOSA; GASTRITIS; GASTROSCOPY; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 20444492440     PISSN: 09441174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00535-005-1605-0     Document Type: Review

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