endoscopic biopsy

This is usually easily diagnosed with endoscopic biopsies.

GAVE is usually diagnosed definitively by means of an endoscopic biopsy.

The incidence of pancreatitis after endoscopic biopsy of the papilla is unknown.

Standard histological evaluations (including two endoscopic biopsies) were made of 93% of all entered subjects.

Diagnosis is generally made by surgical or endoscopic biopsy of the lung, revealing the distinctive pathologic finding.

Using a long duodenofibrescope, endoscopic biopsy specimens of the jejunum showed amyloid deposits in 15 patients.

The miners had significantly more acute-on-chronic gastritis in their endoscopic biopsy speci ens.

All endoscopic biopsy specimens and gastrectomy material were reviewed and classified according to the proposals of Isaacson et al.

Where a malignant cause for the stricture was suspected, this was excluded by endoscopic biopsies and cytological examination.

Using endoscopic biopsy we were able to compare patients with different diseases and control subjects with gastric mucosa histologically free of significant alterations.

In this series one patient suffered a bowel perforation as a result of an endoscopic biopsy that was done to check response to the gluten free diet.

The prediction rule recommends that people with high-risk symptoms "or" positive serology should undergo endoscopic biopsy of the second part of the duodenum.

Numerous further endoscopic biopsies of enlarged papillas in FAP patients have since been performed with standard forceps without complication.

These results suggest that endosonography is better than endoscopic biopsy specimens and computed tomography in assessing the response of oesophageal carcinoma to non-surgical treatment.

The incidence in the 1960s, however, might have been underestimated as endoscopic biopsy was not available and this study required histological verification rather than a radiological diagnosis.

Gastric mucosa, obtained by pooling 10 antral endoscopic biopsy specimens (40 mg) from a single subject, was divided into two equivalent samples.

In 16 of 16 patients the diagnosis was based on multiple endoscopic biopsies (>6) showing invasion of the gastric mucosa by lymphoid tissue.

In the remaining seven patients the diagnosis was made after colectomy and synchronous pouch formation despite preoperative endoscopic biopsies suggesting ulcerative colitis.

Long term in vitro cultures were established in MG3 broth from resection and endoscopic biopsy samples of intestinal tissue as described previously.

Traumatic injury (surgical, seat belt injury, endoscopic biopsy, cautery during endoscopy, foreign body ingestion particularly batteries)

However, we feel that the clinical indicators of malignancy emphasised in this study may encourage clinicians to be more aggressive, even when faced with negative endoscopic biopsy specimens.

In conclusion, our findings show that low grade, gastric MALT lymphoma can always be diagnosed on the basis of both fixed and fresh endoscopic biopsy specimens.

We investigated the total phospholipid composition of human gastric mucosa from endoscopic biopsy specimens in patients with peptic ulcer disease or gastritis, and in normal subjects.

Eventually the correct diagnosis was made in seven patients after repeated endoscopic biopsies (case 1 and 2, Hambly and Blundell), open biopsy or examination or surgical specimens.

In the present study, the presence of gap junctions in surface mucous cells in endoscopic biopsy specimens from patients with gastric ulcer was investigated by freeze fracture methods.