Gastroesophageal junction

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Author: Mikael Häggström [note 1]

Microscopic examination

Histopathology of non-dysplastic Barret's esophagus (NDBE). Yellow arrow in a indicates goblet-cell-positive mucosa adjacent to the squamocolumnar junction.[1]

The main finding to look for is intestinalized mucosa (Barret's esophagus), which is defined as the presence of columnar epithelium with goblet cells.[2] A true goblet cell should have rounded shape, clear to bluish cytoplasmic mucin, and be randomly scattered.[3] The mucin usually indents the nucleus.[3]

Further workup of intestinalized mucosa

If intestinalized mucosa (Barret's esophagus) is present, look for dysplasia:

In absence of intestinalized mucosa

GE junction with chronic inflammation including plasma cells (black arrow), and also an acute inflammation with neutrophils (white arrow).

Look for signs of (reflux) esophagitis, mainly:[4]

  • Inflammatory cells, especially when intra-epithelial. Neutrophils confer a diagnosis of acute inflammation, while plasma cells, eosinophils and excess T cells confer a diagnosis of chronic inflammation.
  • Basal cell hyperplasia exceeding 15 - 20% of the epithelial thickness.

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Comprehensiveness

On this resource, the following formatting is used for comprehensiveness:

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Examples:

(GE junction, biopsy:)
Gastroesophageal junctional mucosa with chronic inflammation and reactive changes(, non-specific.
Negative for intestinalized (Barrett's) mucosa.)
(GE junction, biopsy:)
Squamous mucosa, negative for significant histopathologic changes.
(Negative for gastric mucosa or intestinalized (Barrett's) mucosa.)

Notes

  1. For a full list of contributors, see article history. Creators of images are attributed at the image description pages, seen by clicking on the images. See Patholines:Authorship for details.

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References

  1. Riegler, M.; Kristo, I.; Nikolic, M.; Rieder, E.; Schoppmann, S. F. (2017). "Update on the management of Barrett’s esophagus in Austria ". European Surgery 49 (6): 282–287. doi:10.1007/s10353-017-0504-y. ISSN 1682-8631. 
    - Fig 2- available via license: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
  2. . Barrett Esophagus. Stanford University School of Medicine. Retrieved on 2020-09-01.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Dipti M. Karamchandani. Esophagus - Premalignant - Barrett esophagus. Topic Completed: 19 March 2020, Minor changes: 29 June 2020
  4. Elliot Weisenberg. Esophagus - Esophagitis - Reflux esophagitis / gastroesophageal reflux disease. Topic Completed: 1 October 2012. Minor changes: 8 July 2020

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