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Helicobacter pylori; histological and cultural correlation in chronic gastritis
K Mahmood1, M N Chowdhury, E A Ayoola
1Department of Pathology, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia.
Tropical Gastroenterology : Official Journal of the Digestive Diseases Foundation
|October 1, 1991
Abstract:
Seventy seven antral biopsies were collected from patients attending endoscopy clinic at King Khalid University Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia during a period of six months between December 1988 to May 1989. Of these 69 (89.6%) showed chronic gastritis as well as Helicobacter-like organisms (HLOs) in the biopsy specimens while 63 (81.8%) of biopsies grew Helicobacter pylori on culture. These findings indicate a good correlation between the histological diagnosis of chronic gastritis and isolation of H. pylori on culture.