Chronic atrophic gastritis and intestinal metaplasia surrounding diffuse-type gastric cancer: Are they just bystanders in the process of carcinogenesis?

• Seung Yong Shin,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Chung-Ang University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Department of Internal Medicine, Gangnam Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

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• Jie-Hyun Kim ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: otilia94@yuhs.ac

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Gangnam Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9198-3326

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• Jaeyoung Chun,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Gangnam Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

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• Young Hoon Yoon,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Gangnam Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

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• Hyojin Park

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Gangnam Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

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