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Morphometric study of the esophageal mucosa in cirrhotic patients with variceal bleeding

✍ Scribed by Julio Ponce; Agustin Froufe; Eduardo de la Morena; José Mir; Miguel Rayón; Ramón Pina; Joaquin Berenguer

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1981
Tongue
English
Weight
688 KB
Volume
1
Category
Article
ISSN
0270-9139

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✦ Synopsis

A morphometric study of the distal esophageal mucosa (within 5 cm above the gastroesophageal junction) has been carried out in a group of 11 cirrhotic patients undergoing esophageal transection with SPTU gun for variceal bleeding. The relative thickness of the papillae (62.2 f 3.9%) and basal zone (11.8 f 1.9%) were within normal limits. Polymorphonuclear infiltrates were not found either in the lamina propria or in the epithelium. The absence of histopathologic changes in the esophageal mucosa from patients with liver cirrhosis and bleeding esophageal varices confirms the hypothesis that gastroesophageal reflux does not play a pathogenic role in the development of variceal bleeding.

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