Intestinal metaplasia of gastric cardia and carditis in Japanese patients with Helicobacter pylori infection

Digestion

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 103-108

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

^a Niigata Prefectural Yoshida Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carditis; Gastric cardia; Helicobacter pylori; Intestinal metaplasia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BIOPSY; CARDIA; CARDITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTESTINE METAPLASIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STOMACH ANTRUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CARDIA; ENDOSCOPES, GASTROINTESTINAL; FEMALE; GASTRITIS; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PYLORIC ANTRUM;

EID: 5644288488     PISSN: 00122823     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000080929     Document Type: Article

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