1999 Volume 41 Issue 7 Pages 1308-1312
A 53-year-old woman was admitted with complaint of nausea and vomiting. Endo-scopic examination of the upper gastrointestinal tract revealed multiple lesions mimicking ha +IIc at the antrum. Biopsy specimens of these lesions showed gastric mucosa with diffuse infiltration of eosinophils. Laboratory data on admission showed peripheral eosinophilia. The patient was diagnosed as eosinophilic gastroenteritis (EGE). With oral prednisolone therapy, mucosal lesions on endoscopic studies disappeared shortly after the relief of the clinical symptoms and peripheral eosinophilia. By reviewing the 55 Japanese cases on gastric lesions in EGE, no reports were available concerning gastric lesions mimicking IIa+IIc. It could be important to differentiate EGE from gastric cancer.
