Table 1
The grade of histological features of gastritis in the antrum and the corpus
| Cancer patients | Control subjects | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | p Value | |
| Data represent the number of patients. | |||||||||
| p Values were determined by Mann-Whitney U test. | |||||||||
| MNC, mononuclear cell; NS, not significant; PMN, polymorphonuclear cell. | |||||||||
| Antrum | |||||||||
| MNC infiltration | 0 | 6 | 18 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 23 | 3 | NS |
| PMN infiltration | 12 | 18 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 19 | 2 | 0 | NS |
| Glandular atrophy | 5 | 2 | 12 | 13 | 4 | 11 | 13 | 4 | p < 0.05 |
| Helicobacter pylori density | 6 | 14 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 11 | 8 | 9 | NS |
| Intestinal metaplasia | 13 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 23 | 3 | 5 | 1 | p < 0.01 |
| Corpus | |||||||||
| MNC infiltration | 0 | 4 | 21 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 19 | 3 | p < 0.05 |
| PMN infiltration | 6 | 20 | 6 | 0 | 11 | 11 | 10 | 0 | NS |
| Glandular atrophy | 11 | 12 | 4 | 5 | 17 | 4 | 6 | 5 | NS |
| Helicobacter pylori density | 1 | 9 | 9 | 13 | 5 | 10 | 5 | 12 | NS |
| Intestinal metaplasia | 24 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 27 | 2 | 2 | 1 | NS |
