[The clinico-laboratory characteristics of errors in the diagnosis of chronic gastritis].

Abstract

The authors analyze results of a study of 100 patients with chronic gastritis showing secretory insufficiency with a dubious diagnosis. Endoscopy and intragastric pH-metry were used. The diagnosis of chronic gastritis was confirmed in 35 patients and of them with secretory insufficiency only in 21 patients that evidences inadequate attention to the complaints, anamnesis, incomplete examination and use of laboratory and other data.