Thursday, January 9, 2014

The Goose

A 55 year old Caucasian man with obesity and GERD gets an endoscopy for erosive esophagitis.


Challenge: Images shown above confirm the diagnosis of what?

The first image is in the public domain. The second image is shown under Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike License.

2 comments:

daisyflower said...

barretts?

Craig said...

duck...duck...goose! Yes, it's Barrett's
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The Goose

This is Barrett’s esophagus, the replacement of stratified squamous epithelium with metaplastic columnar epithelium.

Sources: UpToDate; Wikipedia.