Metaplasia is the replacement of one differentiated cell type with another mature differentiated cell type that is not normally present in that tissue. Metaplasia, when persistent, can be a precursor ...

Intestinal metaplasia occurs when cells in the tissues of the upper digestive tract, often in the stomach or esophagus, change and become more like cells from the intestines. Intestinal metaplasia is ...

'Metaplasia' is defined as the conversion of one tissue type to another, whereas 'transdifferentiation' is defined as the conversion of one differentiated cell type to another. Despite scepticism ...

Gastric intestinal metaplasia (GIM), which is linked to non-cardia gastric cancer, is often detected during routine endoscopy, leading to questions about how patient care should be managed. A new ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Samir Gupta, MD, MSCS, AGAF, of Moores Cancer Center at University of California, San Diego, told Healio ...

The urology department admitted the patient for left laparoscopic adrenalectomy. The operating urologist noted significant tumor cohesion, pronounced angiogenesis, marked inflammatory lesions, and ...

Intestinal metaplasia (IM) occurs when the body replaces the cells that line the upper digestive tract (including the stomach ...

The primary disease process in myelofibrosis with myeloid metaplasia (MMM) is clonal myeloproliferation with varying degrees of phenotypic differentiation. This is characteristically accompanied by ...

A 32-year-old woman with a history of an early pregnancy loss followed by a term birth presented to her gynecologist with difficulty conceiving and amenorrhea. Her second pregnancy, the live birth, ...

Intestinal metaplasia is a condition in which the cells that create the lining of your stomach are changed or replaced. The replacement cells are similar to the cells that create the lining of your ...