Pseudopyloric mucous glands

File:Pseudopyloric mucous glands - 3 -- very high mag.jpg

Micrograph showing pseudopyloric mucous glands. H&E stain.

Pseudopyloric mucous glands, also pyloric gland metaplasia, is a change seen intestine. It is associated with Crohn's disease.

General

• Associated with Crohn's disease.

Microscopic

Features:

• Round glands with abundant pale cytoplasm - stubby champagne flute.
• Usually in the deep aspect of the mucosa.

Images

• Pseudopyloric mucous glands -- low mag.jpg

  PMG - intermed. mag.

• Pseudopyloric mucous glands -- intermed mag.jpg

  PMG - intermed. mag.

• Pseudopyloric mucous glands -- high mag.jpg

  PMG - high mag.

• Pseudopyloric mucous glands - 2 -- high mag.jpg

  PMG - high mag.

• Pseudopyloric mucous glands - 2 -- very high mag.jpg

  PMG - very high mag.

• Pseudopyloric mucous glands - 3a -- high mag.jpg

  PMG - high mag.

• Pseudopyloric mucous glands - 3b -- high mag.jpg

  PMG - high mag.

• Pseudopyloric mucous glands - 3 -- very high mag.jpg

  PMG - very high mag.

See also

• Cryptitis.
• Crypt abscess.