A chronic gastritis is common and clinically significant, but specific findings were rarely described in UGIS.And the authors attempted to clarify the area gastrica of the stomach related to the chronic gastrits. The authorsreviewed 'Areae gastricae'', micromucosal patterns of stomach, retrospectively with double contrast barium mealstudy in 16 cases, histologically proven cases of chronic gastritis by endoscopic biopsy from Jan.1, 1980 to June30, 1980. Here the commonest site of chronic gastritis is evident in 12 cases in pyoric bland area, and a sixe ofarea gastrica shows above 2.5mm in longest diameter with combinding morphology, regular to irregular, 3 to 1 andcoarse barium accumulations of intervening sulci. The chronic gastritis could be suggested with this bettertechnique of UGIS.