K Jaskiewicz, H D Louwrens, C W Woodroof, M J van Wyk, S K Price
In the study of a group of 178 unselected patients (105 men, 73 women, mean age 44.5 years), from a population at high risk for gastric carcinoma, who presented with chronic dyspepsia, a minimum of 8 gastric and oesophageal biopsy specimens were taken during upper gastro-intestinal endoscopy, and examined histologically and histochemically for the presence of Campylobacter pylori and other pathological lesions. Gastric colonisation by C. pylori was found in 75% of men and 68.4% of women. In 90% of patients with duodenal or gastric ulcer and in 71...
May 6, 1989: South African Medical Journal