Quality of gastric ulcer healing evaluated by endoscopic ultrasonography

Table 1 Background factors of 32 patients (mean±SD).

	Group A	Group B	Group C
Number of cases	9	11	12
Gender (M/F)	2:7	3:8	4:8
Age (yr)	43.3±22.4	47.1±19.8	53.3±20.2
Ulcer location	3:4:2	5:3:3	4:5:3
(antrum/angulus/body)
H pylori (pretreatment)	8	9	9
H pylori (after treatment)	0	0	1
W1 (mm)	8.43±2.40	9.08±2.51	9.52±2.34
L1 (mm)	16.30±3.41	14.38±3.29	16.19±3.49
A1 (mm)	402.76±94.89	394.85±74.82	424.56±65.61

Table 2 Average contraction rates of W, L, and A in three groups (mean±SD).

	Group A	Group B	Group C
Contraction rates of W	0.623±0.067	0.537±0.098	0.585±0.123
Contraction rates of L	0.496±0.052	0.391±0.073	0.407±0.083
Contraction rates of A	0.792±0.090	0.660±0.105	0.668±0.143