Superficial gastritis has been classified as a type of chronic gastritis, since a report of Schindler in GASTRITIS, 1974. However, Benedict reported that superficial gastritis is only acute gastritis or shows normal mucosa histologically. The
common
endoscopical findings of chronic superficial gastritis were adherent mucus, edema, redness. The common redness which were encounterd are patchy redness and comb-like redness(Kammrotung).
We studied the relationship between the redness of superficial gastritis and acute inflammatory changes histologically. Each case of superficial gastritis was biopsied to redening and non-redening mucosa respectively. We collected 24 cases with
48
biopsy specimens.
@ES The results are as follows:
@EN Acute inflammatory changes were found only one case in redness and none in non-redness groups. There was no difference in acute inflammatory changes in two group.
The degree of mucosal atrophy were 62.5%, 66.7% in normal mucosa, 12.5%, 16.7% in mild atrophy, 25%, 12.5% in moderate atrophy, 0%, 4.1% in severe atrophy with respect to redness and non-redness mucosa respectively. There was no difference in
degree of
mucosal atrophy in two groups.
Mucosal atrophies were higher in older ages above 41 years old than below 40 and with increasing age, there was increasing tendency of mucosal atrophy.
In conclusion, There was no relationships between mucosal redness and acute inflammatory changes histologically and also between mucosal redness and degree of atrophy. (Kor J Gastrointest Endosc 15: 664~669, 1995)
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