Category Archives: Stomach

Stomach Carcinoid Tumors

Stomach Carcinoid Tumors

Gross appearance: look like polyps
Histology: acinar, insular, trabecular
Treatment: antrectomy, tumor resection

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Gastric Carcinoma

Gastric Carcinoma

Risk factors

- smoking, nitrates, nitrites, low socioeconomic status, Japan, Helicobacter pylori, chronic gastritis

Gross appearance

- flat, ulcerated, exophytic

Histology

1) intestinal gastric carcinoma

- well formed glands, mucin in lumen (little in cytoplasm)

2) diffuse signet ring gastric carcinoma

- associated desmoplastic response

- also termed linitis plastica

- diffuse tumor seen throughout mucosa and wall

- thickened, rigid, leather bottle-like stomach

Metastases

- supraclavicular nodes (Virchow’s node)

Metastasis to ovary → Kruckenberg tumor (bilateral to ovaries)

Immunohistochemistry

- CDX2, CK7

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Gastric Adenoma

Gastric Adenoma

- intestinal or gastric

- not major precursor for adenoma

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Dieulafoy’s Lesion

Dieulafoy’s Lesion

Calibre-persistent artery of the stomach

•    large calibre artery located in the submucosa

•    gradually erodes the mucosa

•    60% mortality

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Gastric Antral Vascular Ectasia

Gastric Antral Vascular Ectasia (GAVE)

•    gross “watermelon stomach”

•    dilated capillaries in superficial lamina propria

•    fibrin thrombi

•    +/- fibromuscular hyperplasia of the lamina propria

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Reflux Gastropathy

Reflux Gastropathy

Location

- antrum, pre-pylorus

Causes

- ASA, NSAIDs, bile-reflux, post jejunal-ileal surgery

Histology

- regenerative epithelium with mucin depletion, increased tortuosity (corkscrewing) of glands, fibromuscular hyperplasia in lamina propria

- H.pylori negative

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Menetrier Disease

Menetrier Disease

Clinical presentation

- hypoproteinemic, hypochlohydria gastropathy

- protein-losing gastropathy

- hypoalbuminemia

Location

- body

Histology

- elongated and dilated foveolar mucous glands

- specialized glands are absent → replaced by mucous glands

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Gastric Xanthoma

Gastric Xanthoma

Gross appearance

- small yellow nodules

Histology

- lipid-laden histiocytes cells, not discrete

Immunohistochemistry and Special stains

- CD68, Sudan black, oil red O

Differential diagnosis

- signet ring carcinoma, malakoplakia, Whipple disease, MAI

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Pancreatic Heterotopia

Pancreatic Heterotopia

Location

- antrum

Histology

- submucosal acinii, ducts, islets

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Gastritis Cystica Polyposa

Gastritis Cystica Polyposa

Clinical presentation

- increased risk of colorectal and gastric carcinoma, occur near stoma site

Gross appearance

- large polyp

Histology:

- looks like HP polyp, may get glands into the muscularis

Differential diagnosis

- adenocarcinoma muscle invasion

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