TOPICS: Acute gastritis, stomach acid, loss of mucosal protective factors, inflammation, erosion, ulceration, nsaids, alcohol, hypovolemic shock, stress ulcers, curling ulcers, cushing ulcer, chemotherapy, chronic gastritis, atrophy, autoimmune gastritis, type IV hypersensitivity, parietal cells, intrinsic factor, pernicious anemia, intestinal metaplasia, achlorhydria, gastrin, antral G cell hyperplasia, intestinal type gastric adenocarcinoma, h. pylori gastritis, antrum, epigastric pain, urease, protease, somatostatin, duodenal ulcers, intestinal metaplasia, hypochlorhydria, gastric ulcers, adenocarcinoma, MALToma, triple therapy, urea breath test, stool antigen, peptic ulcer disease, proximal duodenum, distal stomach, zollinger ellison syndrome, h. pylori, nsaids, bile reflux, urease, somatostatin, gastrin, cck-b receptors, histamine, ecl, cytotoxins, duodenal bicarbonate, epigastric pain, anterior duodenum, brunner gland hypertrophy, posterior duodenum, gastroduodenal artery, gastric ulcers, multifocal atrophic gastritis, left gastric artery, intestinal type gastric carcinoma, biopsy, benign ulcers, punched out, symmetrically thickened mucosa, malignant ulcers, raised margins, gastric carcinoma, adenocarcinoma, intestinal type, nitrosamines, japan, intestinal metaplasia, tobacco smoking, achlorhydria, blood type A, defined glands, irregular heaped up margins, lesser curvature of antrum, diffuse type, signet ring cells, e-cadherin, plaque, loss of rugae, desmoplasia, leather bottle stomach, linitis plastica, metastasis, abdominal pain, weight loss, anemia, acanthosis nigricans, leser trèlat sign, seborrheic keratosis, metastasis, liver, virchow node, sister mary joseph nodule, krukenberg tumor, ovarian masses, stomach wall thickening