Endoscopic identification of helicobacter pylori gastritis in children

Digestive Endoscopy

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 90-94

  Hidaka, Nao ^a   Nakayama, Yoshiko ^a   Horiuchi, Akira ^a   Kato, Sawako ^a   Sano, Kenji ^b  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Showa Inan General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Collecting venules; Esophagogastroduodenoscopy; Gastritis; Helicobacter pylori; Magnifying endoscopy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CHILD; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DUODENUM BIOPSY; DUODENUM ULCER; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; FEMALE; GASTRITIS; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOASSAY; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STOMACH ANTRUM; STOMACH ULCER; UREA BREATH TEST;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; ENDOSCOPY, DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; FEMALE; GASTRIC MUCOSA; GASTRITIS; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VENULES;

EID: 77949894308     PISSN: 09155635     EISSN: 14431661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1443-1661.2010.00943.x     Document Type: Article

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