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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jan 11.
Published in final edited form as: Jpn J Helicobacter Res. 2009;10(2):9–14.

Figure 2. Recommended sites for gastric biopsy for identification of the extent of atrophy.

Figure 2

Recommended antral (A) sites and corpus (C) biopsy sites are shown in the schematic and in endoscopic photographs (note Cl3 is not shown in the photo). It is important that antrum and corpus be submitted separately and that lesser and greater curvature corpus sites be separately identified (see test for details). All specimens can be embedded in the same block of compartmental embedding blocks are used.