Abstract:Objectives : Autoimmune gastritis (AIG) is an antibody-mediated autoimmune disease and characterized by gastric parietal cell loss. Type-1 gastric carcinoid tumor (GCT) is a disease that mostly develops on the basis of AIG. The aim of this study is to determine similarities and differences of baseline clinical parameters between these two disorders.
Methods: Patients diagnosed as AIG both without gastric carcinoid tumor (n:197) and with GCT (n:40) between 2004 and 2015 at Ankara University Faculty of Med… Show more
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