위 질환의 장상피 화생에 대한 임상적 관찰

The gastric problems are one of the most serious subjects of internal medicine in Korea. The endoscopic examination of stomach is more valuable than that of radiological means because the biopsy can be performed through fiberoptic gastroscope. In gastroscopic biopsy, the intestinal metaplasia is frequently found. The frequency and location of intestinal metaplasia are examined in this study. The general frequency of intestinal metaplasia is (20.6%) (46 cases) in all (223) biopsied cases. The peak incidence is 31.3% in sixth decade, whereas 13.3% in third decade. 40 cases (87.0%) of intestinal metaplasia is found in gastric antrum. So, we concluded that the intestinal metaplasia is more frequent in aged man and majorities of intestinal metaplasia are found in gastric antrum and 26.1% of the cases are complicated with chronic peptic ulcer.