. 2023 Oct 17;54:93. doi: 10.1186/s13567-023-01223-4

Table 3.

Histopathological evaluation of gastric biopsy specimens based on hematoxylin and eosin staining

	No gastritis	Mild gastritis	Moderate gastritis	Follicular gastritis^a	Ulcerative
Corpus only	7	0	0	6	1 (accompanied by follicular gastritis in antrum)
Antrum only	5	0	1 (accompanied by follicular gastritis and mild mineralization in corpus)	8	0
Corpus + antrum	29	1 (probably associated with chronic kidney failure evident by (sub)mucosal mineralization)	0	3	0

No gastritis

Mild gastritis

Moderate gastritis

Severe gastritis

Follicular gastritis^a

Ulcerative

Corpus only

(accompanied by follicular gastritis in antrum)

Antrum only

(accompanied by follicular gastritis and mild mineralization in corpus)

Corpus + antrum

(probably associated with chronic kidney failure evident by (sub)mucosal mineralization)

^aFollicular gastritis was defined as the presence of at least four basal lymphoid follicles throughout the biopsy section.