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Upper GI Pathology Flashcards

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What are the layers of the gut?

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What is the Z line?

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Transitional line from squamous to columnar

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What are the parts of a normal stomach?

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What are the layers of the stomach in the body?

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What are the layers of the stomach in the antrum?

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What is normal duodenal epithelium?

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What is this?

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Acute oesophagitis

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What is the presentation and complications of GORD?

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  • Gastro-oesophageal reflux disease
  • Commonest cause of oesophagitis
  • Reflux of acidic gastric contents

Ulceration

–necrotic slough

–inflammatory exudate

–granulation tissue

•Fibrosis

Complications

  • haemorrhage
  • perforation
  • stricture
  • Barrett’s oesophagus
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What is this?

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BARRETT’S OESOPHAGUS

•Re-epithelialisation by metaplastic columnar epithelium usually with goblet cells
(intestinal type epithelium)

•AKA columnar lined oesophagus (CLO)

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What is 1,2 and 3?

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  1. Normal
  2. CLO
  3. CLO with IM
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What changes lead to cancer?

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Metaplastic glandular epithelium (intestinal type)

Dysplasia changes showing some of the cytological and histological features of malignancy but no invasion through the basement membrane

Adenocarcinoma invasion through the basement membrane

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What is the most common type of oesophageal cancer?

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Adenocarcinoma of the oesophagus (lower- associated with reflux)

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What is this?

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  • Associated with alcohol and smoking
  • Mid/lower oesophagus
  • Invasion into the submucosa
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What is this?

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SCC of oesophagus

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What is the prognosis of an oesophageal carcinoma?

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  • Prognosis poor
  • Diagnosis of pre-invasive stage important
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What is the oesophageal varices?

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caused by: cirrhosis, Budd Chiari/ PV thrombosis

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What is gastritis?

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  • inflammation of the gastric mucosa
  • Acute gastritis - acute insult
  • Chronic gastritis - chronic / persistent insult
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What might cause acute gastritis?

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Chemical

  • aspirin/NSAIDs
  • alcohol
  • corrosives

Infection

e.g. Helicobacter pylori

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What causes chronic gastritis?

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  • H. pylori associated
  • Chemical (NSAIDs, bile reflux; antrum )
  • Autoimmune (body, auto-antibodies e.g. antiparietal)
  • Lymphocytes +/- Neutrophils

Mucosal Associated Lymphoid Tissue (MALT)induction

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What is H Pylori associated gastritis?

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•Cause

H. pylori

•Pattern

chronic gastritis +/- activity

•Outcome

CLO-IM-Dysplasia,

Adenocarcinoma

Lymphoma (MALToma)

21
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How is Helicobacter a carcinogen?

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  • Helicobacter infection is associated with an 8x increased risk of (non-cardia) gastric cancer
  • cag-A-positive H.pylori have a needle like appendage that injects toxin into intercellular junctions allowing the bacteria to attach more easily.
  • This strain is associated with more chronic inflammation.
  • Treatment of the infection with antibiotics drastically reduces the risk of cancer.
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What else causes gastritis?

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•Infection

e.g. CMV, strongyloides

(immunosuppression)

•Inflammatory bowel disease

Crohn’s Disease

23
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What is this?

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Gastric ulcers

All ulcers should be biopsied to exclude malignancy

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What are the complications of ulcers?

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•Bleeding

Anaemia

Shock (massive haemorrhage)

•Perforation

Peritonitis

25
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What is intestinal metaplasia?

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  • As in the oesophagus:
  • intestinal metaplasia in gastric mucosa in response to long term damage
  • Increased cancer risk
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What is gastric epithelial dysplasia?

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  • Abnormal epithelial pattern of growth
  • Some of the cytological and histological features of malignancy are present, but no invasive through the basement membrane
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What are factors contributing to gastric cancer?

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Who gets gastric cancer?

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  • High incidence in Japan, Chile, Italy, China, Portugal, Russia
  • More common in men (1.8:1 ♂:♀)
  • >95% of all malignant tumors in stomach are adenocarcinomas
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What type of cancers are gastric cancers?

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95% of stomach cancers are adenocarcinoma

These are split morphologically into:

  • Intestinal – well differentiated
  • Diffuse – poorly differentiated (Linitis plastica), includes signet ring cell carcinoma
  • The remaining 5% is made up of:

–Squamous cell carcinoma

–Lymphoma (MALToma) [Haematology]

–Gastrointestinal stromal tumour (GIST) [Endocrinology]

–Neuroendocrine tumours [Endocrinology]

•Overall survival rate is 15%

30
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What is gastric lymphoma?

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•Chronic inflammation

–Chronic immune stimulation

  • B cell (marginal zone) lymphocytes
  • Treatment

–If limited to the stomach and H.pylori is present: H.pylori eradication

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What is duodenitis?

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  • Increased acid production in the stomach which spills over into duodenum
  • Chronic inflammation and gastric metaplasia with helicobacter infection
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What is a duodenal ulcer?

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Duodenitis and DU

good correlation between endoscopy and biopsy pathology

Endoscopy “itis”:

73.5% progress to ulcer, mainly erosive duodenitis (biopsy – neutrophils)

33
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What other pathogens can cause a duodenal ulcer?

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  • Immunosuppressed
  • CMV
  • Cryptosporidiosis
  • Giardia lamblia infection
  • Whipple’s disease -Tropheryma whippelii.
34
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What causes malabsorption in partial villous atrophy?

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  • Histology
  • Villous atrophy
  • Crypt hyperplasia
  • Increased Intraepithelial lymphocytes

(normal range less than 20 lymphocytes /100 enterocytes)

35
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What does the second half of this image show?

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Flattening in villous atrophy

36
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What is required for the diagnosis of coeliac disease?

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•Diagnosis requires:

endomysial antibodies and tissue transglutaminase antibodies

Duodenal biopsies:

On gluten rich diet showing villous atrophy

Off gluten showing normal villi

There are other causes of malabsorption with similar histology e.g. tropical sprue

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What is a duodenal MALToma?

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Patients with coeliac disease have an increased risk of GIT cancers

  • MALToma associated with Coeliac is
  • in the duodenum
  • T-cell origin
  • (Enteropathy Associated T-cell Lymphoma)
38
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What is this?

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Duodenal maltoma

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40
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What are the 2 types of Barretts?

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Without gobelt cells (gastric metaplasia)

With goblets cells (intestinal metaplasia)

41
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What is CLO?

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Barrett’s oesophagus (metaplastic change in oesophagus)

42
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What is associated with SCC of the oesophagus?

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Commonest in developing countries

Associated with alcohol and smoking

Mid/ lower oesophagus

43
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Do cancers arise from pre existing adenomas in the oesophagus and stomach?

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No (but this is not true in colon)

44
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In a patient with coeliac disease on a diet containing gluten, which is the most likely histological change in the duodenum?

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Villous atrophy, increased intra-epithelial lymphocytes

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