Publications of Faculty of Medicine:THE ROLE OFHELICOBACTER PYLORI INFECTIONIN GASTRICMUCOSAL ANTRALIZATION ANDMETAPLASIA: Abstract

Helicobacter Pylori is a carcinogen; gastric carcinoma involves amultistep processfromchronic gastritis to atrophy, intestinal metaplasia, and dysplasia. The aims ofthis study were to determine the types ofmucosa at different gastric sites inH. pylori-infected and uninfectedpatients, and whether the presence of antral-type mucosa in the incisura, body, and fundus is associatedwith gastric atrophy and intestinalmetaplasia.