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No differences were found for age, sex, gastric corpus or antrum, or degree of inflammation in the gastric lamina propria. All intraepithelial lymphocytes were of T cell lineage. Cases not showing lymphocytic gastritis did however show significantly increased gastric intraepithelial lymphocytes compared with non-coeliac controls. Eighteen of 70 cases were positive for Helicobacter pylori, and four of seven cases of lymphocytic gastritis were H pylori positive; no significant difference was observed between H pylori positive and negative patients. Three cases had concomitant ulcerative enteritis, of which none showed lymphocytic gastritis, while five cases had concomitant enteropathy associated T cell lymphoma, of which one showed lymphocytic gastritis. CONCLUSIONS: Lymphocytic gastritis occurred in 10% of patients with coeliac disease. Cases without lymphocytic gastritis nevertheless showed increased gastric intraepithelial lymphocytes. Coeliac disease may on occasion be a diffuse lymphocytic enteropathy occurring in response to gluten. 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