[Clinical morphological aspects of chronic gastroduodenitis in patients with vibration disease].

The article covers data of endoscopy, histologic and bacteriologic study of gastric lavage in 55 vibration disease patients (random select). Duodenal peptic ulcer was found in 1 patient, gastric polyp--in 1 patient, erosive gastroduodenitis in 14 (25.45%) patients, chronic gastroduodenitis without destruction of mucosa--in 39 (70.91%) patients. Contamination with Helicobacter pylori appeared in 97% of cases, being significant and subject to therapy only in 35.29% of patients.