Disease

Articles

• cystic fibrosis-associated colonopathy
  27 June 2003

  An epidemic of fibrosing colonopathy, a new disease caused by the prolonged administration of excessive doses of pancreatic enzymes, was first reported in 1994. More than 60 cases were known to occur worldwide before dosage guidelines were enforced.
  Predisposing factors
  young age
  previous intestinal surgery
  meconium ileus equivalent
  use of H2 blockers, corticosteroids, and DNase.
  Synopsis
  foreshortened colon
  strictures
  marked submucosal fibrosis
  ascites
  nodular (...)

• collagenous colitis
  15 December 2003

  PO
  Definition: Collagenous colitis is a subtype of microscopic colitis .
  Images
  collagenous colitis https://twitter.com/smlungpathguy/status/853997959943528448 https://twitter.com/UJoneja/status/1282814698338111490
  Microscopy
  Patchy thickening of subepithelial basement membrane thickness : 10 microns or more / 0.01 mm (thickest in transverse colon); often spares rectosigmoid; lower border of collagen is irregular, extends into lamina propria and encircles capillaries, may be (...)

• CMV-associated colitis
  15 December 2003

  cytomegalovirus colitis; Cytomegalovirus-associated colitis
  Images
  CMV infection as a primary cause of isolated colitis, may mimic IBDs https://twitter.com/ArchivesPath/status/763581906302578688
  CMV infection in referactory IBD https://twitter.com/davidacohenmd/status/1336048880815890436
  Synopsis
  colonic mucosal inflammation
  possible megacolon
  See also
  colitis infectious colitis viral colitis
  Open (...)

• allergic eosinophilic proctocolitis
  3 October 2003

  food-induced eosinophilic proctocolitis, allergic proctocolitis

• colonic CGD
  3 October 2003

  colitis in chronic granulomatous disease

• idiopathic eosinophilic colitis
  3 October 2003

  primary eosinophilic colitis
  Definition: Idiopathic eosinophilic colitis is a rare inflammatory disease characterized by eosinophilic infiltration of the colon and peripheral blood eosinophilia.
  Eosinophilic or allergic colitis has been described as a common entity, but its exact prevalence is unknown.
  Walker-Smith, one of the pioneers in the study of gastrointestinal food allergy, stated that, since the last decade CMA has been occurring with different manifestations when compared to (...)

• colonic angiodysplasia
  3 October 2003
• pseudomembranous colitis
  10 January 2005

  Defintion : The pseudomembranous colitis inflammatory pattern is associated with infections primarily caused by Clostridium difficile and less frequently by other bacteria (E. coli, Shigella).
  A similar pattern may be caused by ischemia, certain drugs and radiation injury.
  The diffuse distribution of the lesions favor an infectious or drug induced etiology. The localized distribution of the lesions favor an ischemic etiology.
  Images (...)

• endometriosis
  15 March 2004

  WKP PO
  Digital case
  JRC:6314 : pulmonary.
  Images
  vesical endometriosis https://twitter.com/SunnyKaoMD/status/738611645195243521
  Nodule at site of previous Pfannenstiel incision , associated with cyclical pain. https://twitter.com/histiocytosisX/status/722894221456199684
  Localization
  genital endometriosis ovarian endometriosis ovarian endometriotic cyst
  pulmonary endometriosis
  subcutaneous endometriosis
  vesical endometriosis
  parietal endometriosis surgical (...)

• childhood asymmetric labium majus enlargement
  26 October 2007

  "Childhood asymmetric labium majus enlargement" is a distinctive clinicopathologic entity of pre- and early puberty. Recognition of this fairly common lesion is important, since it may clinically, radiographically, and histologically mimic an infiltrative neoplasm. (#16006794#)
  Its occurrence at an age roughly coincident with the time of breast budding, capacity for spontaneous regression, histologic architecture and composition of elements native to the vulva, expression of hormone (...)

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