Lymphocytic gastritis

Lymphocytic gastritis Lymphocytic gastritis is characterized by accumulation of lymphocytes in surface epithelium of stomach. The disease was associated with Helicobacter pylori infection and celiac disease.
It is found in approximately 1% of gastric biopsies from patients dyspeptics. Diagnosis is usually counted over 25 intraepithelial lymphocytes per 100 epithelial cells. Special type of gastritis may be associated with an apparently normal gastric mucosa. However, endoscopic appearance of rough with prominent gastric folds contains small nodular erosions surrounded by gray-white margin hyperemia, maximal at the gastric body and fundus. This is called general endoscopic gastritis "varioliforma.
Lymphocytic gastritis is now recognized as a special type of chronic gastritis characterized by a large number of intraepithelial lymphocytes in antral mucosa or oxintica.
The frequency of lymphocytic gastritis rarely exceeds 5% of histological diagnoses of gastric biopsies. Diagnosis may be made by hematoxylin eosin staining. Very little is known about etiopatologia, meaning and evolotia disease.
Aetiology of lymphocytic gastritis is unknown. It was attributed to an atypical response to infection with Helicobacter pylori. Although many patients were found seropositive for this infection is not usually confirmed histologically. Lymphocytic gastritis is frequently found in patients with celiac disease. He suggested the theory that lymphocytic gastritis is present as a diffuse lymphocytic gastroenteropatiei part of the expression and location varies.