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If intestinalized mucosa (Barret's esophagus) is present, look for dysplasia:
If intestinalized mucosa (Barret's esophagus) is present, look for dysplasia:
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File:Barrett's mucosa, low-grade dysplasia.jpg|Low-grade dysplasia: Simple straight but elongated tubules lined by dysplastic cells.
File:Barrett's mucosa, low-grade dysplasia.jpg|'''Low-grade dysplasia''': Simple straight but elongated tubules lined by dysplastic cells.
File:Barrett's mucosa, low-grade dysplasia, low-power view, H&E.jpg|Low-grade dysplasia: Elongated tubules crowded together.
File:Barrett's mucosa, low-grade dysplasia, low-power view, H&E.jpg|'''Low-grade dysplasia''': Elongated tubules crowded together.
File:Barrett's mucosa, low-grade dysplasia, H&E.jpg|Low-grade dysplasia: Crowded glandular profiles lined by atypical cuboidal cells. These contain basally oriented, enlarged vesicular nuclei and prominent nucleoli.
File:Barrett's mucosa, low-grade dysplasia, H&E.jpg|'''Low-grade dysplasia''': Crowded glandular profiles lined by atypical cuboidal cells. These contain basally oriented, enlarged vesicular nuclei and prominent nucleoli.
File:Barrett's mucosa, low-grade dysplasia, high-power magnification.jpg|Low-grade dysplasia: Pseudostratified epithelium, with hyperchromatic elongated nuclei occupying much of the cells.
File:Barrett's mucosa, low-grade dysplasia, high-power magnification.jpg|'''Low-grade dysplasia''': Pseudostratified epithelium, with hyperchromatic elongated nuclei occupying much of the cells.
File:Barrett's mucosa, high-grade dysplasia, high-power magnification, H&E.jpg|High-grade dysplasia: The cells are cuboidal and the nuclei have lost their normal basal polarity.  
File:Barrett's mucosa, high-grade dysplasia, high-power magnification, H&E.jpg|'''High-grade dysplasia''': The cells are cuboidal and the nuclei have lost their normal basal polarity.  
File:Barrett's mucosa, high-grade dysplasia.jpg|High-grade dysplasia: highly dysplastic cells
File:Barrett's mucosa, high-grade dysplasia.jpg|'''High-grade dysplasia''': highly dysplastic cells
File:Histopathology of esophageal carcinoma.jpg|Esophageal adenocarcinoma
File:Histopathology of esophageal carcinoma.jpg|Esophageal '''adenocarcinoma'''
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Revision as of 18:19, 28 September 2020

Author: Mikael Häggström [note 1]

Microscopic examination

File:Histopathology of non-dysplastic Barret's esophagus.jpg
Histopathology of non-dysplastic Barret's esophagus (NDBE). Yellow arrow in a indicates goblet-cell-positive mucosa adjacent to the squamocolumnar junction.[1]

The main finding to look for is intestinalized mucosa (Barret's esophagus), which is defined as the presence of columnar epithelium with goblet cells.[2] A true goblet cell should have rounded shape, clear to bluish cytoplasmic mucin, and be randomly scattered.[3] The mucin usually indents the nucleus.[3]

Further workup of intestinalized mucosa

If intestinalized mucosa (Barret's esophagus) is present, look for dysplasia:

Report

Examples:

Gastroesophageal junctional mucosa with chronic inflammation and reactive changes, non-specific.
Negative for intestinalized (Barrett's) mucosa.
Squamous mucosa, negative for significant histopathologic changes.
Negative for gastric mucosa or intestinalized (Barrett's) mucosa.

Notes

  1. For a full list of contributors, see article history. Creators of images are attributed at the image description pages, seen by clicking on the images. See Patholines:Authorship for details.

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References

  1. Riegler, M.; Kristo, I.; Nikolic, M.; Rieder, E.; Schoppmann, S. F. (2017). "Update on the management of Barrett’s esophagus in Austria ". European Surgery 49 (6): 282–287. doi:10.1007/s10353-017-0504-y. ISSN 1682-8631. 
    - Fig 2- available via license: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
  2. . Barrett Esophagus. Stanford University School of Medicine. Retrieved on 2020-09-01.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Dipti M. Karamchandani. Esophagus - Premalignant - Barrett esophagus. Topic Completed: 19 March 2020, Minor changes: 29 June 2020

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