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Helicobacter pylori and Mucosal Atrophy in Patients with Gastric Cancer (A Special Study Regarding the Methods for Detecting Helicobacter pylori)

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We assessed the sensitivities of several methodsfor detecting Helicobacter pylori (culture, histology,rapid urease test, and serology), and evaluated the H.pylori positivity considering the degree of atrophy in the background mucosa in 202 gastriccancer patients and 101 controls. The positivity of H.pylori determined by culture (81%) was significantlyhigher than that determined by serology (62%) in gastric cancer patients (P < 0.001). Thepositivities of H. pylori determined by biopsy and/orserology in intestinal (84%) and diffuse (95%) types ofgastric cancer were higher than that observed in controls (54%) (P < 0.001).Intestinal-type gastric cancer tended to occur in theatrophic mucosa, in which H. pylori positivity was notdifferent from that in controls after adjusting for thedegree of atrophy, whereas diffuse-type gastric cancerwas observed more often in the nonatrophic mucosa, inwhich H. pylori positivity was higher than that incontrols even after adjusting for the degree ofatrophy.

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Tabata, H., Fuchigami, T., Kobayashi, H. et al. Helicobacter pylori and Mucosal Atrophy in Patients with Gastric Cancer (A Special Study Regarding the Methods for Detecting Helicobacter pylori). Dig Dis Sci 44, 2027–2034 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1026622418625

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