Gastric lymphoid follicles in Helicobacter pylori infection: frequency, distribution, and response to triple therapy

RM Genta, HW Hamner, DY Graham - Human pathology, 1993 - Elsevier
To determine the prevalence and distribution of gastric lymphoid follicles in patients with
Helicobacter pylori infection, to evaluate their relationship with gastroduodenal pathology,
and to assess their evolution after eradication of H pylori, mapped gastric biopsy specimens
were obtained from 20 H pylori-negative normal volunteers, 25 asymptomatic volunteers
with H pylori infection and no ulcer disease, 21 duodenal ulcer patients, and 16 patients with
gastric ulcer. Nine infected subjects were treated by triple therapy, and biopsy specimens …