摘要
Introduction： Chronic gastritis is inflammation of the gastric mucosa. It can be non-atrophic and atrophic. Atrophy isdefined as the loss of appropriate glands. It is frequently located in antral mucosa as consequence of Helicobacter pylori infectionand it is associated with intestinal gastric cancer. Goal： Describe histopathological and demographic characteristics of atrophicgastritis. Matherial and methods： We assessed the pathological reports of 100 patients with atrophic gastritis whose characteristicswere evaluated by using a semiquantitative scale of Sidney system of classification of gastritis. To assess the significance betweenthe incidence of various parametres we used ;~2 test. Results： We found that the difference in frequency of atrophic gastritis betweenmen and women was not statistically significant. The difference in distribution is statistically significant in favor of the antrum.Among patients who have atrophy with Helicobacterpylori infection and intestinal metaplasia and those who do not have metaplasia,it was found that the difference is highly statistically significant. Conclusion： The most frequent localisation of atrophic gastritis isantral mucosa. There is no difference between men and women in frequency of atrophic gastritis, while the aging is related with moreoften occurrence of atrophic gastritis.
