Context - Clinical presentation of celiac disease is extremely variable and the diagnosis relies on serologic tests, mucosal intestinal biopsy and clinic and serologic response to a gluten-free diet. Objectives - To correlate the endoscopic and histological aspects of adult patients with suspicion of celiac disease and to evaluate the interobserver histological agreement. Method - Endoscopic aspects of 80 adult...
Introduction: Endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) of early neoplasias of the gastrointestinal tract (GIT) has been increasingly applied as an alternative to invasive surgical procedures, with the aim to preserve the patient’s organ and quality of life, although it does not allow the histopathological analysis of lymph nodes. Previous studies demonstrated that the presence of neoplastic emboli in lymphatic (l...