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Endoscopic and Upper Gastrointestinal Barium X-ray Radiography Images of Early-stage Autoimmune Gastritis: A Report of Two Cases

We herein report two patients with early-stage autoimmune gastritis who did not exhibit complete atrophy. Endoscopic examinations showed no manifestations of severe atrophic gastritis, but revealed a mosaic pattern with slight swelling of the areae gastricae restricted to the corpus in both patients...

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Autores principales: Ayaki, Maki, Aoki, Rika, Matsunaga, Tae, Manabe, Noriaki, Fujita, Minoru, Kamada, Tomoari, Kobara, Hideki, Masaki, Tsutomu, Haruma, Ken
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8222124/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33390494
http://dx.doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.6328-20
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Sumario:We herein report two patients with early-stage autoimmune gastritis who did not exhibit complete atrophy. Endoscopic examinations showed no manifestations of severe atrophic gastritis, but revealed a mosaic pattern with slight swelling of the areae gastricae restricted to the corpus in both patients. In the patient in case 2, upper gastrointestinal barium X-ray radiography revealed a slightly protruded irregular areae gastricae throughout the gastric body, except for in the antrum. Our findings emphasize the need for clinicians to recognize that autoimmune gastritis might be present in the absence of severe atrophic gastritis; this can aid in the identification of the early stages of autoimmune gastritis.