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Stomach

Infections

Measles gastritis

Reviewers: Elliot Weisenberg, M.D. (see Reviewers page)
Revised: 6 August 2012, last major update August 2012
Copyright: (c) 2003-2012, PathologyOutlines.com, Inc.

General
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● Associated with upper GI bleeding

Case reports
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● 44 year old man (Am J Surg Pathol 2001;25:259)

Endoscopy
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● Erosive gastritis or ulcers with heaped, nodular edges

Micro description
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● Severe gastritis, dense plasmacytic infiltration, variable neutrophils and lymphocytes
● Large, bizarre inclusion bodies and clusters of multinucleated giant cells in surface epithelium and lamina propria
● Vasculitis without proliferative stages

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