Figure - PMC

Skip to main content

An official website of the United States government

Here's how you know

Here's how you know

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you've safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

View full-text article in PMC

. 2020 Oct 29;112(3):128–137. doi: 10.32074/1591-951X-156

Search in PMC
Search in PubMed
View in NLM Catalog
Add to search

© 2020 Copyright by Società Italiana di Anatomia Patologica e Citopatologia Diagnostica, Divisione Italiana della International Academy of Pathology

This is an open access journal distributed in accordance with the CC-BY-NC-ND (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International) license: the work can be used by mentioning the author and the license, but only for non-commercial purposes and only in the original version. For further information: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.en

PMC Copyright notice

Figure 3. — (A) Esophageal Crohn’s disease (magnification 20x). Presence of an epithelioid granuloma within squamous epithelium, diagnostic for esophageal localization of Crohn’s disease in a patient with previous diagnosis in the distal ileum; (B) Eosinophilic esophagitis (magnification 40x). A high number of intraepithelial eosinophils is present, also forming microabscesses (black arrow) in the superficial layer. (C) Lymphocytic esophagitis (magnification 40x). Marked spongiosis is present with an increase in intraepithelial lymphocytes in the peri-papillary areas. (D) Lymphocytic esophagitis (magnification 40x). Immunostains for CD3 showing a marked increase in intraepithelial T lymphocytes.