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Case 11: Female 52 – nausea,
abdominal pain, iron deficiency
anaemia
• MICROSCOPIC
• There are five fragments of small intestinal mucosa
present on the slide. Brunner’s s glands are evident in
one of the fragments indicating that the biopsies are
from the duodenum. The villi appear to be of normal
length with normal villus crypt ratio. The surface
epithelium and brush border are normal. There is no
evidence of increased numbers of lymphocytes within
the surface epithelium. There is no evidence of
increased number of inflammatory cells the lamina
propria. No Giardia can be identified.
• SUMMARY
• Histologically normal duodenal mucosa.