RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Message in a bottle: decoding medication injury patterns in the gastrointestinal tract
JF Journal of Clinical Pathology
JO J Clin Pathol
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Association of Clinical Pathologists
SP 903
OP 912
DO 10.1136/jclinpath-2014-202511
VO 67
IS 10
A1 Voltaggio, Lysandra
A1 Lam-Himlin, Dora
A1 Limketkai, Berkeley N
A1 Singhi, Aatur D
A1 Arnold, Christina A
YR 2014
UL http://jcp.bmj.com/content/67/10/903.abstract
AB Medication injury in the gastrointestinal tract (GIT) is a rapidly evolving topic. Increasing endoscopy together with an ageing population, polypharmacy, and a burgeoning drug industry offer heightened opportunities to observe the unintended side effects of therapeutic ingestants. In this review, we emphasise the most commonly encountered medication injuries involving the GIT, as well as emerging agents and mimics. While topics are organised by organ system, the reader should keep in mind that injury patterns are generally not site-specific. As such, awareness of these major morphologic patterns can be translated to multiple tissue sites to more broadly facilitate the diagnostic process.