Second, continuous suppression of gastric acid secretion should facilitate the rapid spread from antrum and cardia to the corpus enabling development of corpus gastritis and subsequent atrophy.

In such cases, consideration should be given to implantation of a gastric electrical stimulator ... pylorus along the greater curvature of the antrum. The 2 electrodes are placed 1 cm apart ...

of gastric mucosa 1 3 mm in area were obtained from the gastric antrum using flexible forceps for histology, urease test and culture. A further 44 symptomatic subjects aged 51.2 ± 2.5 years ...