Abstract
Kammrötung (viz, comb-like redness, KR), regarded as a sign of superficial gastritis was studied in detail by endoscopy. During recent 6 years, there were 211 cases with KR among 3443 patients examined by endoscopy in our hospital and its frequency was 6.1%. KR was seen not only in the corpus but also in the antrum. KR was sometimes observed in both the corpus and antrum. Almost all of the cases with KR were noted in the stomach with a closed type of atrophic pattern of the fundic gland mucosa. That is, we think KR occurs in the stomach without atrophic change. Various erosions-linear, varioliform and linear depression, were observed where KR existed. Surrounding gastric mucosa showed irregular gastric areae. It was supposed that some kind of superficial change occurred in the surrounding gastric mucosa as well as in the mucosa where KR existed.
