Post written by Choong-Kyun Noh, MD, PhD, from the Department of Gastroenterology, Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon, South Korea. Helicobacter pylori infection is associated with gastric diseases such as gastritis, peptic ulcers, mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue lymphoma, and gastric cancer. As H pylori eradication can reduce gastric cancer incidence and metachronous gastric cancer rate after …
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Histologic intestinal metaplasia and endoscopic atrophy are predictors of gastric cancer development after Helicobacter pylori eradication
Satoki Shichijo and Yoshihiro Hirata from the Department of Gastroenterology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, describe this Original Article published in GIE. We reported a retrospective, endoscopy-based, long-term cohort study to elucidate the risk factors for gastric cancer development after Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) eradication. We assessed histologic and endoscopic findings of gastritis …
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