[Complete gastric erosions--a relatively frequent gastroscopy finding]

While by means of the semiflexible Wolf-Schnidler-gastroscope no complete erosions had been seen, they were found in 12.7% in 615 gastroscopies, carried out with glass fibre endoscopes. In nearly 80% of the patients the erosions, appearing in most cases in a larger number, were localised in the antrum ventriculi. As the most frequent concomitant disease the gastroduodenal ulcer was found. Roentgenologically in no case the diagnosis erosion was made. As to the soft tissues defects of the epithelium could rarely be ascertained, however, more frequently a foveolar pseudohyperplasia as the morphological substrate of the marginal wall. Chronic-atrophic changes of the mucous membrane in the environment of the erosions were by far more frequently to be proved than superficial gastritides or normal findings on the mucous membrane of the stomach.