Gastrointestinal biopsy diagnosis in the tropics.

摘要: A variety of infections and infestations the gastrointestinal tract pose a diagnostic challenge for pathologists gastroenterologists in tropics. The interpretation intestinal mucosal biopsies is complicated by effect tropical, usually contaminated, environment widespread malnutrition, which may influence gut morphology even apparently healthy individuals. This chapter will concentrate on biopsy alterations that are widely prevalent population small large intestine also specific bacterial parasitic can be diagnosed biopsy. It must emphasised pathologist working tropics should fully familiar with diagnosis neoplastic conditions. particularly important since regional differences prevalence malignancies now becoming apparent (Ramakrishna et al. 1988).