Helicobacter pylori infection, premalignant gastric lesions and gastric cancer in the Baltic States: a review

Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection has been recognized as a human class I carcinogen in 1994 and linked with the development of gastric cancer in numerous studies. Gastric cancer still ranks as the second leading mortality cause among all cancers in the world and in the fourth place in Europe...

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Main Authors: Limas KUPČINSKAS, Peter MALFERTHEINER
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Vilnius University Press 2011-07-01
Series:Acta Medica Lituanica
Online Access:https://www.journals.vu.lt/AML/article/view/21603