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Otherwise perfectly normal gastric biopsy with microcalcs all over it....no carcinoma, no inflammation, no parasites/bugs...who has also seen this??
My knee jerk reaction would say ask for a recut of the slide to ensure it wasn't contaminant...but wtf do I know?![]()
microcalcs within tissue arent contaminants. but every contribution is worthwhile, even the silly ones.🙄
May need to call in the big guns and send an email to UMich.
Ah!
Gastric biopsy...scratch my last post 🙂
Kayexalate in sorbitol given orally has also been associated with necrosis in the upper GI tract (Am J Surg Pathol. 2001 May;25(5):637-44.).
has the patient been taking a lot of antacids? A visiting GI pathologist (he was famous, can't remember his name right now) showed us a case like that during his resident seminar, then he talked about a study he did using microdissection on similar sounding cases and was disappointed to find that the microcalcs consisted of calcium and magnesium.
The patient is on dialysis...interesting, I do believe that this maybe drug related. Maybe a paper is in order, I could slap everyones name on it from the SDN path forum🙂
LADoc, Et al?
The patient is on dialysis...interesting, I do believe that this maybe drug related. Maybe a paper is in order, I could slap everyones name on it from the SDN path forum🙂