BACKGROUND Biopsy specimens obtained from the gastro-oesophageal junction can reveal intestinal metaplasia in patients presenting for routine upper endoscopy. The site of biopsy may play a critical ...

Medically reviewed by Qin Rao, MD Intestinal metaplasia (IM) occurs when the body replaces the cells that line the upper ...

Your esophagus pathology report: Barrett's esophagus and dysplasia. Jencks DS, Adam JD, Borum ML, Koh JM, Stephen S, Doman DB. Overview of current concepts in gastric intestinal metaplasia and ...

Histologic reports should include presence of intestinal metaplasia and presence and grade of dysplasia. Testing and treating H pylori infection in patients with BE is controversial. Currently ...

Although the full picture of chronic bronchopulmonary dysplasia is invariable only ... continued necrosis, metaplasia, basement-membrane thickening, atelectasis and failure of the alveoli to ...

Patients with high-grade dysplasia are discovered earlier if ... these short segments of intestinal metaplasia are called short-segment BE. [7] BE is now believed to be a major cause of the ...

Chondroectodermal dysplasia is a hereditary condition. A physical exam and X-rays are used to diagnose chondroectodermal dysplasia and monitor associated symptoms, like knock-knee. Up to 50 percent of ...

What is developmental dysplasia of the hip? Developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH) is the name for a wide range of problems with the way a child’s hips form. Some of these problems are present at ...

Objective We tested the hypothesis that fat metaplasia on MRI of the sacroiliac joints (SIJ) increases the propensity for new bone formation in the spine of patients with spondyloarthritis. Methods We ...

1 Centro Multidisciplinario de Estudios en Biotecnología, Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morelia, Mexico 2 School of Chemical Sciences, ...