“…The rates of atrophy and intestinal metaplasia in gastric endoscopic biopsy specimens vary in studies. In the study by Erdoğan Durmuş et al, 37 atrophy and intestinal metaplasia were not observed. In contrast, in the study by Marginean et al, 38 atrophy was observed in 3 and intestinal metaplasia in 4 of 462 cases.…”