Table 1.

Differential Diagnosis of Gastric Diffuse Diseases

Distensibility of the gastric wall	Change of mucosal folds
	With thickened mucosal folds	Without thickened mucosal folds
Poor	Scirrhous gastric cancer	Corrosive gastritis (healing stage)
	Pancreatic cancer, dissemination of acute pancreatitis	Diffuse gastric ulcer
	Corrosive gastritis (acute stage)	Specific gastritis (syphilis, gastric Crohn’s disease, autoimmune gastritis)
	Metastatic gastric cancer
Good	Gastric lymphoma	Latent scirrhous gastric cancer
	Acute gastritis	MALT lymphoma
	Menetrier disease
	Zollinger-Ellison syndrome

MALT, mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue.