Helicobacter pylori infection and the development of gastric cancer

N Uemura, S Okamoto, S Yamamoto…

Index: Ikeda, Katsuya; Honda, Hiroyuki; Matsuo, Takanori; Yamamoto, Tamotsu Organic Preparations and Procedures International, 1995 , vol. 27, # 1 p. 103 - 106

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Abstract

We prospectively studied 1526 Japanese patients who had duodenal ulcers, gastric ulcers, gastric hyperplasia, or nonulcer dyspepsia at the time of enrollment; 1246 had H. pylori infection and 280 did not. The mean follow-up was 7.8 years (range, 1.0 to 10.6). Patients underwent endoscopy