Patients with a previous diagnosis of intestinal metaplasia, patients with a history of gastric cancer, and patients with a previous gastrectomy were excluded. after identifying endoscopy results with suspected metaplasia, the pathology reports for those patients were found.
Los criterios de exclusión fueron: 1. Pacientes con diagnóstico previo de metaplasia intestinal 2. Pacientes con antecedente de cáncer gástrico 3. Pacientes con cualquier tipo de gastrectomía previa.