• Zeinab Moustafa Elsawaf, Abdulkader Mohammed Albasri, Akbar Shah Hussainy, and Ahmed Safar Alhujaily.
• Department of Pathology, Taibah University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
• J Pak Med Assoc. 2017 Feb 1; 67 (2): 252-255.

ObjectiveTo determine the histopathological pattern of gastritis and benign gastric diseases in western Saudi Arabia.MethodsTThis retrospective histopathology-based study was conducted in a tertiary care hospital in Madinah, Saudi Arabia, and comprised medical records of all patients who were diagnosed to have benign gastric diseases from January 2006 to December 2015.SPSS 19 was used for data analysis.ResultsOf the 1,236 patients, 669(54.1%) were males and 567(45.9%)were females. The overall mean age was 43±10.75 years (range: 10-100 years). Besides, 755(61.1%) patients were in the age group of 20-49 years. Gastritis was diagnosed in 1,105(89.4%) cases, 1,091(88.3%) of which were chronic. Benign polypi was found in 34(2.75%) cases and normal biopsies in 97(7.85%) cases. Helicobacter pylori organisms were detected in 402(32.5%) cases. Helicobacter pylori gastritis was active in 331(82.5%) cases, atrophic in 4(0.9%) and metaplastic in 11(2.7%) cases. The mean age of gastric polypi patients was 50.1±12.52 years (range: 16-90 years). Hyperplastic polypi was seen in 30(88.2%) cases. Fundic gland polypi were found in 4(11.8%) cases.ConclusionsBenign gastric diseases appeared to affect the younger individuals. Gastritis was more prevalent and benign polypi was less so.

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