Kamimura K, Kobayashi M, Sato Y, Aoyagi Y, Terai S. Collagenous gastritis: Review. World J Gastrointest Endosc 2015; 7(3): 265-273 [PMID: 25789098 DOI: 10.4253/wjge.v7.i3.265]
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Kenya Kamimura, MD, PhD, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata University, 1-757 Asahimachido-ri, Chuo-ku, Niigata 951-8510, Japan. kenya-k@med.niigata-u.ac.jp
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World J Gastrointest Endosc. Mar 16, 2015; 7(3): 265-273 Published online Mar 16, 2015. doi: 10.4253/wjge.v7.i3.265
Collagenous gastritis: Review
Kenya Kamimura, Masaaki Kobayashi, Yuichi Sato, Yutaka Aoyagi, Shuji Terai
Kenya Kamimura, Masaaki Kobayashi, Yuichi Sato, Yutaka Aoyagi, Shuji Terai, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata University, Niigata 951-8510, Japan
Author contributions: Kamimura K, Kobayashi M, Sato Y and Aoyagi Y and Terai S contributed to this paper.
Conflict-of-interest: The authors declare that they do not have a current financial arrangement or affiliation with any organisation that may have a direct interest in their work.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Correspondence to: Kenya Kamimura, MD, PhD, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata University, 1-757 Asahimachido-ri, Chuo-ku, Niigata 951-8510, Japan. kenya-k@med.niigata-u.ac.jp
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Received: October 2, 2014 Peer-review started: October 11, 2014 First decision: October 28, 2014 Revised: November 3, 2014 Accepted: December 16, 2014 Article in press: December 17, 2014 Published online: March 16, 2015
Core Tip
Core tip: The diagnosis of collagenous gastritis is based on the histological findings of collagen bands thicker than 10 μm in the subepithelial layer and infiltration of inflammatory mononuclear cells in the lamina propria. Similar histological changes are seen in the colon in collagenous colitis. While there are many cases of collagenous colitis published in the literature, there are only 60 reported cases of collagenous gastritis since the disease was first identified in 1989. The present review discusses the characteristics of this disease entity and summarizes the cases reported to date. Better knowledge and understanding of collagenous gastritis will help physicians to diagnose the disease, and the accumulation of future cases will help to develop a standard therapeutic strategy.
