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Small and Large Intestine Pathology Flashcards

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Meckel Diverticulum Rule of 2s

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2% of population
2 ft from the ileocecal valve
2 in long
2x male incidence
by the age of 2 (only 4% are ever symptomatic)
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Hirschsprung Disease

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  • Megacolon
  • 10% cases assc w/ Down Syndrome
  • Presents w/ failure to pass meconium -> distension of bowel
  • Treatment is surgical resection of the aganglionic segment
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GI Obstruction

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ntusseception, volvulus, hernia and ahesions

-Multiple air fluid levels in intestines on X-ray

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Intussusception

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  • Telescoping of bowel segment into distal segment -> obstruction, ischemia
  • common cause; 5-9 mos age
  • most idiopathic
  • assc w/ viral illness and rotavirus vaccine
  • common lead point is Meckel’s diverticulum
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Volvulus

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  • radiographic “coffee bean” sign
  • most common in adults; equally small & large intestine
  • children only small intestine
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External inguinal hernia

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  • hernia sac -> prolonged -> ischemia, obstruction and danger of perforation
  • acquired forms typically occur anteriorly, via the inguinal and femoral canals
  • small bowel loops typically involved
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Adhesions

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  • fibrous bridges create closed loops which other loops can slide through and become entraped -> internal hernia
  • most common cause in US due to postoperative, inflammation and endometriosis
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Lower GI boundary

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distal to ligament of Treitz

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Lower GI bleeding

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  • most common in 7th decade
  • chronic, low-grade invisible bleeding -> iron deficiency anemia
  • commonly caused by diverticulosis, angiodysplasia, ischemia of watershed zones (> 70 yo) and cancer
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Angiodysplasia

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  • non-neoplastic vascular lesion usually around cecum or proximal right colon
  • presents with tortuous dilation of malformed submucosal and mucosal blood vessels
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Ischemic Bowel Disease

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  • acute mesenteric ischemia
  • presents w/ abdominal pain and hematochezia
  • Elder pts often experience little or no pain
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Watershed areas

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Splenic flexure

Recto-sigmoid junction

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Lower GI ischemia caused by aterial insufficiency (85-95%)

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  • Non-occlusive (25%): systemic hypotension, shock, hypoxemia, dehydration
  • Occlusive (70%): obstruction to arterial blood flow to include primary atheromatous emboli (50%) and thrombus (10%)
  • outcome determined by degree of collateral circulation
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Lower GI ischemia caused by venous insufficiency (10%)

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Younger patients complaining of:

  • abdominal pain
  • havinge xternal venous compression (mechanical)
  • mesenteric venous thrombosis
  • hypercoag state
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Ischemic bowel disease

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Acute compromise of any major vessel -> infarction of several meters of intestine

Superficial mucosal infartction: no deeper than mucularis mucosae
Transmural: all 3 wall layers

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Pathogenesis of ischemic bowel disease

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  1. Hypoxic injury

2. Reperfusion injury: leakage of lipopolysaccharide, free radical production and neutrophil infiltration

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Diarrhea

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  • normally absorption > secretion

- caused by disruption of epithelial electrolyte transport or reg sys by toxins, drugs, hormones and cytokines

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Diarrhea classification

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  • Watery: secretory or osmotic
  • Fatty: defective absorption of fat and thus nutrients
  • Inflammatory: disease or neoplasm (purulent or blood stools)
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Secretory diarrhea

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  • persists during fasting

- usually infectious: viral or enterotoxin

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Osmotic diarrhea

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  • abates w/ fasting

- classically lactase deficiency

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Exudative diarrhea

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  • mucosal damage -> purulent, blood stools
  • persists during fasting
  • usually bacterial or IBD
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Infectious enterocolitis

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  • most self-limited
  • related to ingestion of fecal contaminated water or food, and to foreign travel
  • result of interaction of host factors and microbial virulence factors
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Enterocolitis symtoms

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  • diarrhea
  • N/V
  • dehydration
  • fever
  • abdominal pain
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Bacteria that produce preformed toxins

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S. aureus, B. cereus, C. botulinum, C. perfringens

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Bacteria that secrete toxins

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Enterotoxigenic E. coli, V. cholerae, C. jejuni

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Bacteria that intracellularly invade

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Shigella, Salmonella

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Bacteria that enter the blood stream via the intestinal tract

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Salmonella typhi, Listeria monocytogenes

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Staphylococcus aureus

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  • gram(+)
  • preformed enterotixins while multipling in food
  • fast onset diarrhea
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Vibrio cholerae

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  • severe disease leads to dehydration, hypotension shock and death w/i 24 hrs
  • produces multiple toxins -> increase Na and Cl ions in lumen
  • attach to brush border of epithelial cells in lumen
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MOA cholera toxin

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toxin causes increased adenylate cyclase activity -> increased cAMP -> loss of nutrients (Na, H20, Cl, K, Bicarb) -> diarrhea

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Enterotoxigenic E. coli (ETEC)

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  • non-invasive, produces secretory toxins
  • non-bloody, watery, non-inflammatory diarrhea
  • traveler’s diarrhea
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Enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC)

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  • non-invasive, attaches to effacing mucosal lesions
  • non-bloody diarrhea
  • infants
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Enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC); O157:H7 and non-O157:H7

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  • Shiga-like toxin
  • bloody diarrhea
  • hemorrhagic colitis
  • antibiotics inc risk of HUS
  • undercooked meat
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Enteroinvasive E. coli (EIEC)

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  • invade epithelial cells
  • no toxins
  • dystentery and bacterermia
  • young children in developing countries
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Enteroaggregative E. coli (EAEC)

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  • chronic non-bloody diarrhea and wasting

- children and in AIDS patients

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Campylobacter jejuni

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  • gram(-) curved bacillus (“gull-winged”)
  • most common in developed world
  • invasive, toxins
  • associated w/ reactive arthritis in patients with HLA-B27 and GBS
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Shigella

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  • bloody diarrhea
  • toxin inhibits eukaryotic protein synthesis
  • apthous-appearing ulcers
  • highly transmissible fecal-oral route or contaminated water
  • children < 5 yo
  • 75% diarrheal deaths
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Salmonella enteritidis

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  • non-specific features
  • acute self-limited colitis (weeks)
  • food poisoning
  • antibiotic therapy not recommended; can prolong carrier state and does not shorten diarrhea
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Salmonella typhi

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  • typhoid fever

- reative lymphoid hyperplasia in Peyer patches and lymphoid tissues throughout body

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Yersinia enterocolitica

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  • diarrhea
  • post-infectious complications: reactive arthritis w/ urethritis and conjunctivitis, myocarditis, erythema nodosum, kidney disease
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Yersinia pseudotuberculosis

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-fever and abdominal pain mimicking appendicitis

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Bacteria with pseudomembranous histological pattern

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C. difficile
Shigella
Enterohemorrhagic E. coli

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Bacteria with granulomatous histological pattern

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Yersinia spp.
Mycobacterium
Parasites and fungi

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Bacteria with macrophage histological pattern

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Whipple disease-Tropheryma whippelii

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Pseudomembranous colitis

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  • formation of adherent layer of inflammatory cells and debris overlying sites of mucosal injury
  • C. difficile overgrowth and toxin (antibiotic-associated colitis)
  • Dx by C. difficile cytotoxin in stool
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Norovirus

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  • most common cause of acute gastroenteritis
  • second to rotavirus for cause of severe diarrhea in infants/young children
  • large group outbreaks due to contaminated food/water
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Rotavirus

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  • common cause of severe childhood diarrhea and mortality worldwide
  • selectively destroys mature enterocytes
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Adenovirus

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  • major cause of childhood diarrhea
  • important cause of diarrhea in immunocompromised patients
  • Associated with intussusception in children
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GI pathogens associated with AIDS diarrhea

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MAV (foamy macrophage), shigella, salmonella, EAEC, C. Diff
CMS, HSV
Candida, aspergillus
Cryptosporidium, toxoplasma, giardia, entameba histolytica
Strongyloides

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Cryptosporidium spp.

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  • diarrhea
  • contaminated drinking water
  • AIDS or immunosuppressed patients
  • most concentrated in terminal ileum and right colon
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Parasitic enterocolitis

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Ascaris, most common nematode
Pinworm, Whipworm
Entamoeba histolytica
Giardia lamlia
Cryptosporidium spp.
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Giardia

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  • leading GI protozoal disease in US
  • 35% prevalence in daycare centers
  • endoscopic exam unremarkable; no tissue invasion
  • cyst (resistant) and trophozoite forms
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Entamoeba histolytica

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  • dystentery
  • AIDS patients
  • invade colonic crypts -> flask-shaped ulcer
  • embolization to liver and abscesses up to 10 cm
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Malabsorption

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  • defective absorption
  • steatorrhea
  • pancreatic insufficiency, celiac disease and Chron’s disease most common in US
  • disturbance of intraluminal digestion, terminal digestion and/or transepithelial transport or transport into lymphatics
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Whipple disease

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  • blocks nutrient transport into lymphatics
  • diarrhea, steatorrhea, malabsorption
  • characterized by weight loss, diarrhea and polyarthritis
  • caused by infection of Tropheryma whippeli (gram+)
  • treat w/ antibiotics
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Celiac disease

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  • inflammatory disease of small bowel in genetically susceptible individuals:
    1. strong association w/ HLA-DQ2 and DQ8
    2. exposure to gluten (gliadin)
    3. T-cell inflammatory response
  • increased risk for enteropathy-associated T-cell lymphoma and small intestine adenocarcinoma
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Celiac disease population

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  • adults 30-60 yo

- children 6-24 mo

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Celiac disease features

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  • silent (positive serology and villous atrophy w/o sxs) or latent (positive serology and no villous atrophy, may have sxs)
  • malaborption, 10-15% dermatitis herpetiformis, vague abdominal discomfort/bloating
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Celiac disease typical clinical presentation

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diarrhea, steatorrhea, weight loss and nutritional deficiences

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More common atypical celiac disease clinical presentation

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anemia, fatigue, abdominal bloating/discomfort, osteoporosis, infertility

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Celiac disease diagnosis

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  • IgA Tissue Transglutaminase
  • Response to gluten-free diet
  • Confirmed by biopsy
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Tropical spure

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  • areas w/ poor sanitation and hygiene
  • unknown etiology
  • chronic diarrhea, soreness of tongue, weight loss, steatorrhea
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Autoimmune enteropathy

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  • rare
  • intractable diarrhea and malabsorption
  • infants, young children
  • defect in regulatory T-cells
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Lactase deficiency

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  • congenital rare, acquired more common
  • osmotic diarrhea
  • may resolve over time
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Abetalipoproteinemia

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  • autosomal recessive disorder, MTP mutation
  • fat malaborption
  • treated by diet mod and fat soluble vitamins
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Irritable Bowel Syndrome

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  • chronic abdominal discomfort, changes in bowel habits
  • most common diagnosis
  • unknown pathogenesis
  • female, 20-40 yo
  • diagnosis of exclusion
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Inflammatory Bowel Disease

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-chronic condition resulting from inappropriate mucosal immune activation:
Crohn’s disease: any area of GI tract, transmural
Ulcerative colitis: limited ot colon/rectum, mucosa/submucosa

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Crohn Disease

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  • 15-30 yo, western nations, whites, females
  • intermittent diarrhea, fever and abdominal pain
  • most commonly distal ileum
  • 5-6x risk of adenocarcinoma
  • apthous ulcers, cobblestone mucosa, strictures
  • granuloma
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Ulcerative colitis

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  • 20-25 yo
  • diarrhea, rectal bleeding, passage of mucus, urgency, abdominal pain
  • most intermittent course, 5-10% continuous course
  • assc w/ primary sclerosing cholangitis
  • pANCA
  • pancolitis -> 20-30x risk of adenocarcinoma
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Ulcerative colitis pathology

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  • most severe distally, less severe proximally
  • sharp transition between diseased and uninvolved segments
  • always involves rectum
  • toxic megacolon in 5% flares
  • psuedopolyps
  • no granuloma
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Lymphocytic colitis

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  • chronic, watery diarrhea for months/years
  • middle aged patients
  • female 3:1
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Collagenous colitis

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-chronic, water diarrhea for months/years
middle-aged or older
-female 8:1

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Diversion colitis

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surgical treatment -> temporary or permanent ostomy and a blind distal segment of colon

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GVHD

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  • hemaopoietic stem cell transplate
  • donor T cells targeting antigens in GI cells
  • watery to bloody diarrhea
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Diverticular disease

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  • acquired outpouchings
  • most commonly sigmoid colon
  • 80% asymptomatic
  • inflammation -> diverticulitis
  • perforation -> pericolonic abscesses
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Non-neoplastic polyps

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  • hamartomatous
  • inflammatory
  • hyperplastic
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Neoplastic polyps

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  • sessile-serrated adenoma
  • adenoma
  • polyposis syndromes
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Hamartomatous polyps

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  • haphazard arrangement

- Peutz-Jegher syndrome and juvenile polyposis

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Peutz-Jegher syndrome

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-autosomal dominant, 11 yo
-multiple GI polyps small intestine and mucocutaneous hyperpigmentation
40% lifetime risk of some maglignancy

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Juvenile (retention) polyp

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  • <5 yo
  • no malignant potential when solitary
  • juvenile polyposis syndrome assc w/ dysplasia (autosomal dominant)
  • 30-50% adenocarcinoma by age 45
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Inflammatory polyp

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  • regenerative/healing phases of inflammation

- severe colitis, solitary rectal ulcer syndrome

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Hyperplastic polyp

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  • benign
  • 6-7th decade of life
  • most common types of polyps (50% of 50+ yo)
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Sessile serrated adenoma

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  • resembles hyperplastic polyp
  • right colon
  • high rate of DNA methylation and BRAF mutations
  • increased risk of adenocarcinoma
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Conventional adenoma

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  • asymptomatic
  • premalignant
  • 50% population
  • > 2 cm increased risk of malignancy
  • treatment is to removal via colonoscopy (50+ yo old and more adenomas, more frequent screenings)
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Malignancy risk of adenoma

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  • > 4 cm
  • villous > tubular histology
  • increased severity of epithelial dysplasia
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Risk factors for malignancy

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  • family history
  • adenoma
  • familial adenomatous polyposis: defect in APC tumor suppressor gene, thousands adenomas by 20-30 yo
  • lynch syndrome: germline mutations, assc other cancers
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Colorectal adenocarcinoma

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  • males more common
  • begin as intramucosal epithelial lesions
  • 7th decade of life
  • matastases are common
  • early surgical resection most effective treatment
  • apple-core sign
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Clinical features of colorectal carcinoma

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  • grow slowly
  • occult blood loss
  • microcytic hypochromic anemia
  • often misdiagnosed
  • lymph node, liver metastasis
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Tumors of small intestines

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  • uncommon
  • most ampulla of Vater
  • small neuroendocrine (carcinoid) tumors are most common
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Carcinoid tumors

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  • location most important prognostic factor:
    good: esophagus, stomach, appendix, rectum
    aggressive: jejunum, ileum
  • most are at least low-grade malignancies
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Carcinoid syndrome

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  • skin flushing
  • diarrhea, abdominal cramping
  • asthma sxs
  • rapid HR, tricuspid valve insufficiency
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Anal canal malignant tumors

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Upper 1/3: adenocarcinoma

Lower 1/3: SCC (HPV-associated, cloacogenic [SCC w/ basaloid growth pattern])

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Acute appendicitis

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  • periumbilical pain localizing to RLQ (McBurney sign)
  • leucocytosis
  • CT decreases false positive rate to 3%
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Peritonitis

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most caused by: foreign material (talc), endometriosis, leakage of bile/pancreatic enzymes

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Peritoneal cavity tumors

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  • mesothelioma is most common primary (asbestos)

- also metastatic

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