#Microscopic

#Diagnosis 👉🏻 esophageal varices


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Inflammatory cells infiltration ( Neutrophiles )

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Hemorragia

#Gross

#Diagnosis 👉🏻 Herpes esophagitis


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Ulceration that have a brown red base

⭕️ NOTE
These ulcerations have a “punched-out” appearance

#Clinical_features
- dysphagia
- rarely causes bleeding or obstruction

#Endoscopic

#Diagnosis 👉🏻 candida Esophagitis


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grayish white pseudomembrane or plaque

#Clinical_features
- dysphagia
- odynophagia
- rarely cause hemorrhage or obstruction

#Gross

#Diagnosis 👉🏻 Candida esophagitis


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Tan yellow plaques

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- mucosa is
- erythematous
- edematous
- ulcerated or friable ("cottage cheese" esophagus)

#Gross

#Diagnosis 👉🏻 Barretts esophagus


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Island of reddish metaplastic mucosa

metaplastic 👉🏻 from squamous to columnar

#The_causes
Chronic GERD


⭕️ NOTE
Ulceration may occur with bleeding and pain ; inflammation with stricture may ensue.

A
#Diagnosis 👉🏻 Normal esophagus

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normal white squamous mucosa

B
#Diagnosis 👉🏻 Barretts esophagus

#Microscopic

#Diagnosis 👉🏻 Barretts esophagus


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columnar epithelium ( abnormal )

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goblet cells in the columnar mucosa

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Squamous epithelium ( normal )

#Microscopic

#Diagnosis 👉🏻 Barretts esophagus


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columnar epithelium ( abnormal )

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goblet cells

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Squamous epithelium ( normal )

#Gross

#Diagnosis 👉🏻 squamous cell carcinoma


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irregular reddish, ulcerated exophytic mid-esophageal mass 

Causing lumenal stenosis
Risk factors
- smoking and alcoholism

🌸 Classifications of squamous
dysplasia

#Microscopic

#Diagnosis 👉🏻 squamous cell carcinoma at the right

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Invasive of squamous cells from mucosa to submucosa

#Microscopic

#Diagnosis 👉🏻 squamous cell carcinoma


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small remnant of normal squamous esophageal mucosa

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Solid nests of neoplastic cells

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thick, invasive squamous cell carcinoma

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Hemorragia

🌸 Squamous cell carcinoma

#Microscopic

#Diagnosis 👉🏻 squamous cell carcinoma

🌸 The Grades of squamous cell
carcinoma

#Gross

#Diagnosis 👉🏻 Adenocarcinoma

More common at the gastroesophageal junction

#Endoscopic

#Diagnosis 👉🏻 Adenocarcinoma


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A pale, polypoid, exophytic mass