Abstract

THE clinician and the roentgenologist are confronted periodically with the management of a patient in whom large gastric rugal folds have been found. The differential diagnosis must include mucosal spread of an anaplastic carcinoma, lymphoma, hypertrophic gastritis and mucosal hypertrophy, with the possible inclusion of a chronic inflammatory granuloma, such as sarcoid or syphilis.Mucosal hypertrophy of the stomach has been variously termed Menetrier's disease1 (polyadénome en nappe) and tumoral hypertrophy,2 and is often mistakenly called chronic hypertrophic gastritis and diffuse gastric polyposis.3 It is uncommon, and its natural history unknown. The changes that take place in the gastric mucosa . . .

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