Histopathology of Meniere’s Disease

Histopathology of Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis

Ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn’s disease (CD) are chronic inflammatory bowel diseases of unknown cause. Clinically, both conditions usually begin gradually, but they can start abruptly and sometimes even present as fulminant disease.The clinical course is characterized by exacerbations and spontaneous or drug-induced remissions. UC primarily affects the mucosa of the large bowel, while CD is...

Histopathology of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.

Histological analysis of liver biopsies remains a standard against which other methods of assessment for the presence and amount of hepatic injury due to nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) are measured. Histological evaluation remains the sole method of distinguishing steatosis from advanced forms of NAFLD, i.e. nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and fibrosis. Included in the lesions of ...

Selective histopathology in cholecystectomy for gallstone disease.

BACKGROUND Incidental gallbladder cancer is found in upto 1% of cholecystectomy specimens for gallstone disease. Currently, in our institution, all gallbladder specimens are sent for routine histopathology, to rule out incidental gallbladder carcinoma. This study was aimed at assessing the need for routine histopathology of gallbladder specimens after cholecystectomy for gallstone disease. ME...

Coeliac disease diagnosis: has histopathology become redundant?

histopathology diagnosis of coeliac disease – clinicopathological correlation is key!

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