Utah Med GI Pathology Flashcards
Esophageal stricture
Narrowing of esophagus
Describe a patient with mallory Weiss
Lacerations are induced by forceful vomiting and can extend to the submucosa veins that bleed profusely
Super low BP in an arcoholic that has been vomiting
Mallory weiss
Also suspect esophageal varices that could bleed
Hematemesis
Low BP
Maybe eventually stool blood
No rugal fold
Gastric carcinoma
Early gastric carcinoma
H pylori
Patient cant swallow for six months 58 man ulceration mid esophagus pink polygonal cells with marked hyperchromatism and pleomorphoism. What is it and what is it caused by
Squamous cell carcinoma of esophagus
Chronic alcohol abuse
Crohns
Slight increase for adenocarcinoma
Carcinoid tumor
Multiple, small, do not secrete hormones or cause clinical symptoms
Finding of carcinoid
Small submucosal mas in ileum.
Firm yellow tan cut surface microscopically composed of besets of cells with uniform small round nuclei and cytoplasm with small purple granules
Positive for chromogranin
Where are benign peptic ulcers that may cause blood in stool
Antral
Schistosomiasis
Hepatic portal fibrosis and portal hypertension
Primary biliary cholangitis
Increase serum cholesterol with cholelithiasis
Yellow to green stones
Gall stones hyperparathyroidism
Yellow white stones
Hypercholesteremia gall stones
Yellow to green stones
Sickle cell and gall bladder
Black pigment kidney stones
Africa
Dark colored kidney stones contain bilirubin hyperbilirubinemia is a consequence os hemolysis
Patients sick’s cell chronic hemolysis
Hypercalcemia
Pancreatitis
Salmonella enteriica
Self limited diarrhea with cramping
Poultry
Cryptosporidiosis
Immunocompromised
Self limited diarrhea in immunocompromised
Entamoeba histolytica
Developing nations
Mimic IBD and ulceration
V cholera
Profuse watery diarrhea
Shigella flexneri
Diarrhea with blood
Food and water with fecal
Giardia duodenalis
Immunocompetent
In contaminated water in remote places (mountains)
Band like mucosal finding
Fibrosis of collagenous colitis in person over 30 mostly women and associated with autoimmune
UC
Crypt abscess involve rectum first and extend up
Non caseating granuloma
Crohns
Segmented pattern
Anti sacchahromyces cervicisiae antibodies
Entamoeba histolytica
Like crohns but not so localized
UC are at risk for what
Sclerosing cholangitis
HNPCC
Age 39 Aggressive Polyp Right ascending colon Not a ton of polyps
What causes HNPCC
Abnormal mismatch repair genes and accounts for perhabe 1-3% of all colon cancers
Adenomatous polyposis coli
Associated with familial polyposis
Second decade
Hundreds of colonic polyps
Gardner syndrome
Abnormal APC
Hundreds of colonic polyps but unlike familial there are extraintestinal lesions such as osteopathic of bone
UC and adenocarcinoma
Nope
Peutz jeghers syndrome
ADhamartomatous polyps of the small bowel and in some cases in the stomach and colon
Hemolysis
Increased indirect bilirubin
Primary biliary cholangitis
AMA up
CF
Atrophy pancreatic acinar tissue no biliary tract issue
Pancreatic adenocarcinoma head
Extrahepatic biliary obstruction and elevation in DIRET bilirubin and alkalin phoaphstaase
Painless jaundice
No inflammation
Alpha 1 antitrypsin
PAS positive hyaline globules i periportal regions
Wilson
Cirrhosis
Non alcoholic fatty liver
Diabetes
And obesity
Heptomegaly
Linitis plastica
Signet ring cell pattern of adenocarcinoma
Risk factor for adenocarcinoma
Autoimmune gastritis
Describe linitis plastica of stomach
Shrunken with gastric wall thickened to 1 cm with extensive overlying mucosal erosions multiple masses in liver
AIDS
Non Hodgkin lymphoma and kaposi sarcoma
NSAIDS
Gastritis and gastric ulceration but risk for malignancy is low
Systemic sclerosis
Esophagus fibrosis
Alcohol and cancer
Hepatocellular but not gastric
Primary biliary cholangitis
Rare middle aged women
Autoimmune destruction of bile ducts
Decreased ceruloplasmin
Wilson
Increased ferritin
Hemochromatosis
Hep b chronic
Ten years ago had jaundice
Now tired or four months and inflammation and ballooning of lobules from triads
APCC
Familial polyposis APC
Late childhood get polyps can give rise to adenocarcinoma in COLON just colon
HNPCC polyps
Fewer and middle age
What can alpha 1 lead to
Chronic hepatotoxicity and cirrhosis
Describe sclerosing cholangitis
Onion skin fibrosis with a moderate lymphocytic infiltrate
Some intrahepatic bile ducts obliterated
Primary biliary cholangitis
Loss of small bile ducts but not fibrosis
Hepatitis b can cause what
Hepatitis and cirrhosis
Wilson disease can cause what
Hepatitis and fibrosis not sclerosing cholangitis
What can cause sclerosing cholangitis
UC!
Zollinger ellison
Elevated gastrin
Multiple gastric ulceration
Gastric achlohrydia
Atrophic gastritis
Positive urea breath test
H pylori
Acetaminophen liver
Necrosis
Esophageal webs
Iron defiency
CREST
Progressive systemic sclerosis or intestinal tract LOWER ESOPHAGYE
Focal hepatic obstruction labs
Increased alkaline phosphatase and no elevated bilirubin
If only serosa of appendix inflamed
Something else led to inflammation likeperitonits
Hyperplastic polyp
Small, mucosa is increased in amount but no changes of neoplasia
UC polyps
Pseudopoylps are result of surrounding mucosal ulceration. They are not true polyp and not neoplasms
Peutz jeghers polyp
Hamartomatous polyp of bowel
Inflammatory fibroid polyp
Mixed inflammation and collagenization
Adematous polyp
Tubular
Narrow stalk in descending colon easily resected
Pancreatic pseudocyst
Complication of chronic pancreatitis in people with alcohol problem
Area of necrosis with a wall composed of granulation tissue
Gerd
Columnar metaplasia in lower esophagus can get from gerd
Iron deficiency anemia
Esophageal webs
Pas positive
Whipple disease
Effec tmultpile organs including brain
Tropheryma whipple I foamy macrophages in SI submucosa adjacent to lymph nodes or at extraintestinal sites
Post menopausal woman on estrogen swollen feet dyspnea for 2 months
Chronic arthritis skin pigmented
Has hemochromatosis
Start phlebotomy
Acetaminophen
Liver
HIV AIDS herpes
Ulcerlower esophagus
Crypt abscesses colon
Colonic adenocarcinoma
Choldocholithiasis
Bile stasis results from blockafae of biliary tract drainage. The source of the calculi is likely the gallbladder. Though most gallstones remain in the gallbladder , some may escape and travel into the common bile duct. The diagnosis made with imaging
Salmonella typhi
Typhoid fever
Mononuclear inflammation and leuplenia
Old person colonic adenocarcinoma
Sporadic from increased fat and obesity
Blood stool
Obstruction from encircling mass with superficial ulceration that is 20 cm above the anal verge
Megacolon
RET
Edema enlarged heart pulmonary edema abdominal pain
Ischemic enteritis
Ischemia
Hemorrhoids
Chronic costipation
HIV hepatitis
Aging
IV drug user
Worst direct issue of opiate usage
Hemorrhoids from chronic constipation
HIV hep and bacterial sepsis
Zenker diverticulum
Most common diverticulum of esophagus; a pulsing diverticulum developing between inferior pharyngeal constructor and cricopharyngeus msucle. May occur with dysphasia or foul smelling breasts
Villous adenoma
Solitary, sessile, large tumor of colonic mucosa, although it can occur anywhere through the GI tract; composed of mucinous epithelium covering delicate capsular projections; malignant change occurs frequently; hypersecretion occurs rarealy
Volvulus
Twisting of intestine can cause obstruction
Vascular compromised
Virchow node
Fir supraclavicular nose on left
For of malignant neoplasm of viscera
UC
Chronic disease of unknown cause characterized by ulceration of the colon and rectum, with rectal bleeding mucosal crypt abscesses, inflammatory pseudopolyps, abdominal pain and diarrhea;
Causes anemia, hypoproteinemia, electrolyte imbalance and is also less frequently complicated by peritonitis, toxic megacolon, or carcinoma of the colon
Tubular adenoma
Benign neoplasm combed of pithelial tissue resembling a tubular gland
Dysplastic polyp of the colonic mucosa that is considered a potential precursor or adenocarcinoma
Transmural inflammation
Inflammation spanning the entire thickness of the wall of the GI tract
Superficial gastritis
Antral predominant non atrophic gastricis
Non atrophic pangastritis
Antral predominant non atrophic gastriris
H pyloru no atrophy
Inflamed antrum
Normal corpus
Associated with normal acid secretions
No symptoms
Risk of duodenal ulcer
Non atrophic pangastritis
H pylori
Inflammation in whole stomach with no difference between antrum and corpus.
Poorly sanitized areas of h pyloric
Stress ulcer
A duodenum in patient with extensive superficial burns, intracranial lesions, or severe bodily injury
Curling ulcer
Steatorrhea
Fat poop in pancreatic disease and malabsorption syndrome
Celiac sprue
Kids and adults gluten
Chronic inflammation and atrophy of the mucosa of the upper small intestine manifestations include diarrhea, malabsorption , steatorrhea, nutritional and vitamin deficiencies, failure to thrive, or short stature
Tropical sprue
Enteric infection and nutritional deficiencies
Folate defiency
Microcytic anemia
Signet ring cell
Altered basophils cells of the anterior lobe of pituitary that develop following castrations
The body of the cell is occupied by a large vacuole that displaces the nucleus to the periphery, giving the cell a resemblance to a signet ring