
ALIMENTARY
SYSTEM
Fig. 4.50
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Fig. 4.51
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Fig. 4.48 Early
gastric
cancer
(superficial
adenocarcinoma
of the
stomach).
F/38.
The
patient
was
treated
by
partial
gastrectomy.
Note
the
firm,
plateau-like
area
on
the
stomach mucosa, with loss
of the
rugal folds.
The
abnormal area
in
such cases
may be
better seen
by
holding
the
specimen
up to the
light.
This
patient
had
rather vague,
non-specific
upper abdominal symptoms,
and
diagnosis
was
made
by
gastroscopy
and
biopsy.
Fig. 4.49
Malignant
lymphoma
of the
stomach. M/60.
Note
the
multiple
areas
of
creamy tumour
on the
stomach
mucosa.
The
mucosa
is
ulcerated
over
some
of the
deposits.
Fig. 4.50
Normal
small
intestinal
mucosa.
F/66. This tissue
was
obtained
by
means
of a
small bowel biopsy capsule
and
was
examined under
a
dissecting microscope.
The
intestinal
villi
appear
as
fingers, leaves
and
ridges. This
is a
very
much bigger
piece
of
tissue than that obtained
by
present-day fibreoptic
flexible
endoscopes.
Fig. 4.51
Flat
mucosa
(total
villus
atrophy)
in
coeliac
disease.
F/31.
The
patient
had had
lifelong
mild
diarrhoea.
The
jejunal
biopsy
was
performed because
her
child
was
diagnosed
as
having malabsorption syndrome caused
by
coeliac disease.
The
atrophic mucosal pattern
is
well seen
in
this large, capsule
biopsy. Using present-day fibreoptic flexible endoscopes,
the
flat mucosa
of
coeliac disease
can be
visualized
directly
(see
Figure
4.51
a).
Fig. 4.51
a
Coeliac
disease.
The
flat mucosal pattern
of the
duodenum seen through
a
gastroscope.
Fig. 4.51
a
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