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Two patients with intestinal metaplasia of the stomach, whose distribution was exclusively confined to the fundic gland area, are presented herein. The first, a 51-year-old male, had been treated for pernicious anemia for 14 years when he was found to have gastric cancer. His serum gastrin level was quite high, whereas his gastric acid output was markedly low. The polypoid cancer in the fornix of the stomach, which had been removed endoscopically, revealed tubular adenocarcinoma with its invasion limited to the mucosa. The resected stomach showed no residual carcinoma but had numerous minute foci of intestinal metaplasia, diffusely distributed but exclusively confined to the fundic gland area, by macroscopic observation using the leucine aminopeptidase-alkaline phosphatase double staining method. The intestinal metaplasias were all of the complete type, and the parietal and chief cells were almost completely lost. The second patient, a 76-year-old male without pernicious anemia, underwent total gastrectomy for two polypoid cancers in the body of the stomach. The resected specimens, in addition to two hyperplastic polyps in the transitional area, showed the same distribution of intestinal metaplasia as seen in the first patient.
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Hirono, M., Mandai, K., Toge, T. et al. Intestinal metaplasia of the stomach confined to the fundic gland area. Report of two cases. The Japanese Journal of Surgery 17, 276–280 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02470700
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