Chronic gastritis

Chronic gastritis 

Updated: 02/17/2021

© Jun Wang, MD, PhD

General features
  • Chronic mucosal inflammatory process, may lead to mucosal atrophy and metaplasia
  • Incidence increases with age; in Europe/Japan, affects 50% at age 60+
  • Histology does NOT correlate well with symptoms
  • May have intestinal metaplasia
Etiology



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