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Inflammatory Bowel Disease-Pathology
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| Slide 69. Solitary Rectal Ulcer (Mucosal Prolapse) | |
| The alterations associated with mucosal prolapse (itself related in some cases to chronic mucosal ischemia) may mimic the changes of chronic quiescent colitis. The presence of mucosal fibrosis and crypt architecture distortion are common features between these two processes, but the added feature of a splayed, duplicated muscularis mucosae that penetrates and divides the lamina propria, as highlighted in the smooth muscle actin immunostain (insert) is a feature that is characteristic of prolapse. Hamartomatous changes in colonic mucosa may resemble prolapse, but tend to present in the setting of multiple polyps (Cowdens disease), or involvement of sites other than those usually associated with prolapse (anterior rectal wall, mucosa adjacent to diverticular ostia) | |
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