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Our present methods in the treatment of chronic gastritis are outlined and discussed.
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Present therapy objectively, and sometimes subjectively, in the hypertrophic and non-anemic forms is inadequate, due chiefly to insufficient knowledge of pathological processes.
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The congestive, edematous, catarrhal, ulcerative and erosive forms of gastritis are usually most responsive to medical therapy as viewed objectively and subjectively; i.e. by gastroscopic observation and clinical evaluation of the patient.
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New therapeutic approaches in chronic gastritis should be investigated, particularly with reference to (a) hypertrophic, verrucose or mammelonated forms and (b) non-anemic atrophic forms.
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The gastritis problem should be studied jointly and interdependently by the pathologist and gastroscopist clinician for the purpose of achieving a better understanding of the nature of gastric changes in health and disease. Such studies may also reveal the pathogenesis of gastric ulcer and carcinoma.
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Swalm, W.A., Morrison, L.M. The present status of treatment in chronic gastritis gastroscopic observations. American Journal of Digestive Diseases 5, 472–482 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02997081
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