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Oesophagus: Inflammatory Patterns

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Identifying inflammatory patterns in an oesophageal biopsy often gives important clues that lead to a specific aetiological diagnosis. Another important aspect of dealing with nonneoplastic oesophageal biopsies is to correctly identify conditions that have a potential to neoplastic progression as they need closer surveillance. It is vital to correlate the microscopic pattern in an endoscopic biopsy with clinical and endoscopic clues. This chapter details the patterns, clues and pitfalls in biopsy interpretation that leads to a clinically relevant conclusion highlighting key points. In addition to providing strategies for dealing with reactionary patterns, a series of short clinical stories that correlate important clinical, endoscopic and pathologic features are included. Illustration of key points and features are facilitated by a large number of high-quality photomicrographs.

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Ahadi, M.S., Gill, A.J., Turchini, J.R., Raftopoulos, S.C., Kumarasinghe, M.P. (2019). Oesophagus: Inflammatory Patterns. In: Kumarasinghe, M., Brown, I. (eds) Endoscopic Biopsy Interpretation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-79117-3_2

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