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| Saruc,M.; Ozden,N.; Turkel,N.; Ayhan,S.; Demir,M.A.; Tuzcuoglu,I.; Akarca,U.S.; Yuceyar,H.. |
| The etiology of functional dyspepsia is not known. The objective of the present study was to determine the characteristics of functional dyspepsia in Western Turkey. We divided 900 patients with functional dyspepsia into three subgroups according to symptoms: ulcer-like (UL), 321 (35.6%), motility disorder-like (ML), 281 (31.2%), and the combination (C) of these symptoms, 298 (33.1%). All patients were submitted to endoscopic evaluation, with two biopsies taken from the cardia and corpus, and four from the antrum of the stomach. All biopsy samples were studied for Helicobacter pylori (Hp) density, chronic inflammation, activity, intestinal metaplasia, atrophy, and the presence of lymphoid aggregates by histological examination. One antral biopsy was used... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Functional dyspepsia; Subgroups; Helicobacter pylori; Symptoms. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X2003000600010 |
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