Duodenum

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The duodenum is the first part of the small bowel and receives food from the stomach. It is accessible by EGD (esophagogastroduodenoscopy) and frequently biopsied.

An introduction to gastrointestinal pathology is in the gastrointestinal pathology article.

The clinical history is often: r/o celiac or r/o giardia.

Getting started

Normal duodenum

  • Three tall villi.
  • Few intraepithelial lymphocytes; < 1 lymphocyte / 4 epithelial cells.
  • No (pink) subepithelial collagen band.
  • Predominant lamina propria cell: plasma cells.
  • No organisms in lumen.

Basic DDx

  • Celiac sprue.
    • Intraepithelial lymphocytes - key feature.
    • Loss of villi.
  • Giarrdia.
    • Like celiac... but giarrdia organisms.
  • Adenomas.
    • Too much blue - similar to colonic adenomas.
  • Cancer.
    • Too much blue and epithelium in the wrong place.

More

  • H. pylori only in areas of gastric metaplasia.[2]

Duodenal nodules DDX

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Duodenal
nodule
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Benign
(common)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Neoplastic
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Brunner's
gland
 
Heterotopic
gastric mucosa
 
Lymphoid
nodule
 
Adenoma
 
NET
 
Paraganglioma
 
Prolapsed
gastric polyp
 
Metastasis
 
 
 
 

Infections of the duodenum[3]

Common:

  • Giardia

Rare:

  • Cryptosporidia.
  • Microsporidia.
  • Isospora belli.
  • Cyclospora.
  • MAI (Mycobacterium avium intracellulare).
  • CMV (cytomegalovirus).
  • Cryptococcus neoformans.

Common stuffs

Celiac sprue

Main article: Celiac sprue

General

  • Etiology: autoimmune.

Epidemiology

  • Associated with:
    • The skin condition dermatitis herpetiformis.[4]
    • IgA deficiency - 10-15X more common in celiac disease vs. healthy controls.[5]
    • Risk factor for gastrointestinal T cell lymphoma - known as: enteropathy-associated T cell lymphoma (EATL).

Clinical

Treatment:

  • Gluten free diet.
    • Mnemonic: BROW = barley, rye, oats, wheat.

Serologic testing:

  • Anti-transglutaminase antibody.
    • Alternative test: anti-endomysial antibody.
  • IgA -- assoc. with celiac sprue.

Microscopic

Features:[6]

  • Intraepithelial lymphocytes (IELs) - key feature.
    • Should be more pronounced at tips of villi.[7]
    • Criteria for number varies:
      • > 40 IELs / 100 enterocytes (epithelial cells).[8]
      • > 25 IELs / 100 enterocytes (epithelial cells).[9]
  • Loss of villi - important feature.
    • Normal duodenal biopsy should have 3 good villi.
  • Plasma cells - abundant (weak feature).
  • Macrophages.
  • Mitosis increased (in the crypts).
  • +/-Collagen band (pink material in mucosa) - "Collagenous sprue"; must encompass ~25% of mucosa.

Image:

Notes:

  • If you see acute inflammatory cells, i.e. neutrophils, consider Giardiasis and other infectious etiologies.
  • Biopsy should consist of 2-3 sites. In children it is important to sample the duodenal cap, as it is the only affected site in ~10% of cases.
  • Flat lesions without IELs are unlikely to be celiac sprue.
  • Mucosa erosions are rare in celiac sprue; should prompt consideration of an alternate diagnosis (infection, medications, Crohn's disease).

Grading

Rarely done - see celiac sprue article.

Giardiasis

General

  • Etiology:
    • Flagellate protozoan Giardia lamblia.
  • Treatment
    • Antibiotics, e.g. metronidazole (Flagyl).

Microscopic

Features:

  • +/-Loss of villi.
  • Intraepithelial lymphocytes.
    • +Other inflammatory cells, especially PMNs, close to the luminal surface.
  • Flagellate protozoa -- diagnostic feature.
    • Organisms often at site of bad inflammation.
    • Pale/translucent on H&E.
    • Size: 12-15 micrometers (long axis) x 6-10 micrometers (short axis) -- if seen completely.[10]
      • Often look like a crescent moon (image of crescent moon) or semicircular[11] -- as the long axis of the organism is rarely in the plane of the (histologic) section.

DDx:

Images:

Acute duodenitis

General

DDx:

  • Infection.
    • Helicobactor organisms in the stomach.
  • Medications (NSAIDs).
  • Crohn's disease (usually focal/patchy).
  • Portal hypertension.
  • Celiac sprue.

Microscopic

Features:

  • Intraepithelial lymphocytes.
  • Neutrophils - "found without searching" - key feature.
  • Eosinophils - "found without searching" - key feature.
  • Plasma cells (increased).

Notes:

  • One needs stomach concurrent biopsies to r/o Helicobactor.
  • Erosions make celiac sprue much less likely.
  • Presence of chronic inflammation useful for NSAIDS vs. Helicobacter organisms:
    • NSAIDs not commonly assoc. with acute inflammation;[12] thus, without chronic inflammation NSAIDs are unlikely.
      • Acute NSAID-related duodenitis reported.[13]

Peptic duodenitis

General

Microscopic

Features:[14]

  • Gastric foveolar metaplasia.
  • Brunner's gland hyperplasia.

Stains

Foveolar metaplasia:

Weird stuff

Disaccharidases deficiency

General

  • Common among asians.
  • Includes: lactase, sucrase, and maltase.
    • Lactase changes seen with mild histomorphologic changes.[15]
    • Maltase and sucrase only affected in moderate and severe lesions.

Microscopic

Features:[15]

  • Decreased villous-crypt ratio (mild to severe).
  • +/-Inflammation (only in moderate and severe).

DDx:

Notes:

  • May have normal histomorphology.[15]

Whipple disease

General

Etiology:

  • Infection - caused by Tropheryma whipplei.[17]

Epidemiology:

  • Very rare.
  • Classically middle aged men.

Clinical

  • Malabsorption (diarrhea), arthritis + others.
    • Symptoms are non-specific.

Treatment:

  • Antibiotics - for months and months.

Microscopic

Features:[18]

  • Infectious microorganism typically found in macrophages.
    • Macrophages usually abundant - key feature that should raise Dx in DDx.
    • Organisms periodic acid-Schiff (PAS) positive.

Images:

DDx:

  • Mycobacterium avium intracellulare (MAI).

Stains

  • PAS +ve organisms.
  • AFB stain -ve -- to r/o MAI.

Image:

Microvillous inclusion disease

Main article: Microvillous inclusion disease

This rare disease presents very shortly after birth.

Tufting enteropathy

General

  • AKA intestinal epithelial dysplasia.
  • Genetic disease[19] - related to abnormal enterocytes (development and/or differentiation).

Microscopic

Features:[20]

  • Villous atrophy
  • Mononuclear cell infiltration of the lamina propria
  • Abnormal surface enterocytes:
    • Focal crowding -- resembling tufts.


Gangliocytic paraganglioma

  • Abbreviated GP.

General

Microscopic

Features:[23]

  • Ganglion cells - key feature.
    • Round large nucleus.
    • Prominent nucleolus.
  • Nests or cords of epithelioid cells.

DDx:[23]

Images:

Pseudomelanosis duodeni

General

  • Rare.
  • Consists of iron and lipofuscin.[24]

Associations:[25]

  • Hypertension ~90% of cases.
  • Iron supplementation ~75% of cases.
  • End-stage renal disease ~60% of cases.

Gross/endoscopic

  • Dark spots ~35% of cases.[25]

Microscopic

Features:

  • Dark pigment in the lamina propria macrophages.

Images:

Stains

  • Prussian blue +ve ~80% of cases.[25]

Tumours

Lymphoma

Main article: Lymphoma

Note:

Adenocarcinoma of the duodenum

  • AKA duodenal adenocarcinoma.

General

  • Duodenum - most common site in small bowel.

Risk factors:

Microscopic

Features:

Duodenal neuroendocrine tumour

Main article: Neuroendocrine tumours

General

Associations:

Microscopic

Features:[29]

  • Usu. nests of cells - may be:
    • Trabecular.
    • Glandular - common in stomatostatin producing tumours.
  • Stippled chromatin - (AKA salt-and-pepper chromatin, coarse chromatin).
  • Classically subepithelial/mural.
  • Psammoma bodies.

DDx:

Images:

Ampullary tumours

See also

References

  1. ↑ Agarwal S, Smereka P, Harpaz N, Cunningham-Rundles C, Mayer L (July 2010). "Characterization of immunologic defects in patients with common variable immunodeficiency (CVID) with intestinal disease". Inflamm Bowel Dis. doi:10.1002/ibd.21376. PMID 20629103.
  2. ↑ El-Zimaity. 18 October 2010.
  3. ↑ Serra S, Jani PA (November 2006). "An approach to duodenal biopsies". J. Clin. Pathol. 59 (11): 1133–50. doi:10.1136/jcp.2005.031260. PMC 1860495. PMID 16679353. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1860495/?tool=pubmed.
  4. ↑ TN 2007 D22
  5. ↑ Kumar, V.; Jarzabek-Chorzelska, M.; Sulej, J.; Karnewska, K.; Farrell, T.; Jablonska, S. (Nov 2002). "Celiac disease and immunoglobulin a deficiency: how effective are the serological methods of diagnosis?". Clin Diagn Lab Immunol 9 (6): 1295-300. PMID 12414763.
  6. ↑ Cotran, Ramzi S.; Kumar, Vinay; Fausto, Nelson; Nelso Fausto; Robbins, Stanley L.; Abbas, Abul K. (2005). Robbins and Cotran pathologic basis of disease (7th ed.). St. Louis, Mo: Elsevier Saunders. pp. 843. ISBN 0-7216-0187-1.
  7. ↑ Biagi F, Luinetti O, Campanella J, et al. (August 2004). "Intraepithelial lymphocytes in the villous tip: do they indicate potential coeliac disease?". J. Clin. Pathol. 57 (8): 835–9. doi:10.1136/jcp.2003.013607. PMC 1770380. PMID 15280404. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1770380/.
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  10. ↑ http://www.water-research.net/Giardia.htm
  11. ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semicircle
  12. ↑ Taha AS, Dahill S, Nakshabendi I, Lee FD, Sturrock RD, Russell RI (September 1993). "Duodenal histology, ulceration, and Helicobacter pylori in the presence or absence of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs". Gut 34 (9): 1162–6. PMC 1375446. PMID 8406146. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1375446/.
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  19. ↑ URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/omim/185535. Accessed on: 21 September 2010.
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  22. ↑ URL: http://www.cap.org/apps/docs/committees/cancer/cancer_protocols/2011/SmallbowelNET_11protocol.pdf. Accessed on: 29 March 2012.
  23. ↑ 23.0 23.1 Wong, A.; Miller, AR.; Metter, J.; Thomas, CR. (Mar 2005). "Locally advanced duodenal gangliocytic paraganglioma treated with adjuvant radiation therapy: case report and review of the literature.". World J Surg Oncol 3 (1): 15. doi:10.1186/1477-7819-3-15. PMID 15740625.
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