The Prevalence of Helicobacter pylori Infection Decreases with Older Age in Atrophic Gastritis by Shaohua Chen, Lixiong Ying, Mei Kong, Yu Zhang, Youming Li

“…The intestinal metaplasia and dysplasia positivity markedly increased as the degree of gastric atrophy increased. …”
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Results of Photodynamic Therapy in Barrett’s Esophagus: A Review by Bergein F Overholt

“…Barrett’s esophagus is associated with an increased occurrence of mucosal dysplasia and adenocarcinoma in the specialized glandular mucosa, with a 30- to 52-fold increase in the occurrence of esophageal cancer compared with the normal population. …”
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Diagnosis and Management of Barrett’s Esophagus: A Retrospective Study Comparing the Endoscopic Assessment of Early Esophageal Lesions in the Community versus a Specialized Center... by Erin Rayner-Hartley, Oliver Takach, Cherry Galorport, Robert A. Enns

“…Subjects were patients who were referred for BE and dysplasia and subsequently reevaluated by endoscopy. …”
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Desmosomal Component Expression in Normal, Dysplastic, and Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma by Nagamani Narayana, Julie Gist, Tyler Smith, Daniel Tylka, Gavin Trogdon, James K. Wahl

“…Oral cancer may be preceded by premalignant disease that appears histologically as dysplasia. Identification of molecular markers for cellular change would assist in determining the risk of dysplasia progressing to oral squamous cell carcinoma. …”
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Evaluation of Podoplanin in Oral Leukoplakia and Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma by Ashok Patil, Kishor Patil, Suyog Tupsakhare, Mahesh Gabhane, Shrikant Sonune, Shilpa Kandalgaonkar

“…Statistically highly significant difference was present between scores of mild to moderate dysplasia, moderate to severe dysplasia, well to poorly differentiated OSCC, and moderately to poorly differentiated OSCC (Tukey HSD test, P<0.01). …”
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Motion – All Patients with GERD Should Be Offered Once in a Lifetime Endoscopy: Arguments for the Motion by David Armstrong

“…For them, endoscopy is the only appropriate investigation for detecting Barrett’s esophagus and dysplasia or cancer. Because of the difficulty in distinguishing dysplasia from inflammatory and regenerative changes, endoscopy should be undertaken while the patient is on effective antisecretory therapy. …”
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Duodenal Pyloric Gland Adenoma in a 59-Year-Old Asian Male by Mia Manabat, Matthew Jackson, Kha Ngo, Laurence Stawick

“…Endoscopic ultrasound and pathology revealed a PGA with low grade dysplasia and some areas of focal high grade dysplasia. …”
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Gastric Microbiota Associated with Gastric Precancerous Lesions in <i>Helicobacter pylori</i>-Negative Patients by Han-Na Kim, Min-Jeong Kim, Jonathan P. Jacobs, Hyo-Joon Yang

“…Gastric mucosal samples were obtained from 67 <i>H. pylori</i>-negative patients, including those with chronic gastritis (CG), intestinal metaplasia (IM), and dysplasia. The V3–V4 region of the 16S rRNA gene was sequenced and analyzed. …”
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Could Total Colectomy with Ileorectal Anastomosis Be an Alternative to Total Proctocolectomy with Ileal Pouch-Anal Anastomosis in Selected Ulcerative Colitis Patients? by Francesco Tonelli, Carmela Di Martino, Francesco Giudici

“…In IRA group, 2 patients (1.6%) developed anastomotic l dysplasia (HGD) developed in 3 patients dysplasia (HGD) developed in 3 patients eakage, 1 patient (0.8%) had intestinal obstruction, and 2 patients (1.6%) had abdominal hematoma. …”
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Oligodontia and Facial Phenotype Associated with a Rare Syndrome by Fatima Ezzahra Zidane, Mustapha El Alloussi

“…Oligodontia may be clinically isolated or associated with ectodermal dysplasia, a large group of rare diseases, and other syndromes. …”
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Motion – All Patients with GERD Should Be Offered Once in a Lifetime Endoscopy: Arguments against the Motion by James W Freston

“…A decision analysis found that surveillance of BE patients is performed because of inflated estimates of the rate of progression from BE to EAC. Dysplasia more often regresses to more benign histological findings than to cancer, and transient dysplasia can also lead to a high rate of unnecessary endoscopy. …”
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Multifocal Gastric Neoplasia after Recurrent Laser Therapy for the Watermelon Stomach by Charles N Bernstein, Norman Pettigrew, Kenneth K Wang, Howard Greenberg, Jeremy Lipschitz

“…A Billroth I gastrectomy revealed two foci of carcinoma-in-situ/high grade dysplasia and multiple foci of lower grades of dysplasia. …”
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Unusual Clinical and Pathological Features in Pemphigus Vulgaris: A Potential Diagnostic Pitfall by Rosario Caltabiano, Gaetano Magro, Lidia Puzzo, Enrico Vasquez, Rocco De Pasquale

“…The previously reported cytological dysplasia was better regarded reactive rather than neoplastic, likely as the result to the inflammatory injury.…”
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Biomarkers for Risk Stratification of Neoplastic Progression in Barrett Esophagus by Marjon Kerkhof, Johannes G. Kusters, Herman van Dekken, Ernst J. Kuipers, Peter D. Siersema

“…Barrett esophagus (BE) is caused by chronic gastroesophageal reflux and predisposes to the development of esophageal adenocarcinoma through different grades of dysplasia. Only a subset of BE patients will finally develop esophageal adenocarcinoma. …”
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Healthcare Resource Utilization and Costs Among Patients With Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease, Barrett’s Esophagus, and Barrett’s Esophagus-Related Neoplasia in the United States... by Prateek Sharma, Gary W. Falk, Menaka Bhor, A. Burak Ozbay, Dominick Latremouille-Viau, Annie Guerin, Sherry Shi, Margaret M. Elvekrog, Paul Limburg

“…**Methods:** Adult patients with GERD, nondysplastic BE (NDBE), and BERN (including indefinite for dysplasia \[IND\], low-grade dysplasia \[LGD\], high-grade dysplasia \[HGD\] or esophageal adenocarcinoma \[EAC\]), were identified from a large US administrative claims database, the IBM Truven Health MarketScan® databases (Q1/2015-Q4/2019). …”
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Proliferation Index and Karyometric Features of Pancreatic Intraductal Proliferative Lesions by Romana Tomaszewska, Krzysztof Okoń, Krystyna Nowak, Jerzy Stachura

“…Studies of autopsy and surgically resected material as well as recent molecular studies have proved that one of the possible pathways of pancreatic neoplasia is the intraepithelial proliferation – dysplasia – cancer sequence. In the present paper we studied the proliferative activity (Ki‐67 index) in pancreatic intraepithelial proliferative lesions and its correlation with geometric features of cell nuclei as signs of increasing dysplasia. …”
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Motion - Colonoscopic Surveillance is more Cost Effective than Colectomy in Patients with Ulcerative Colitis: Arguments Against the Motion by Anders Ekbom

“…Prophylactic colectomy should be strongly considered for patients with dysplasia, sclerosing cholangitis, longstanding pancolitis (especially if it began early in life) or a positive family history of colorectal cancer. …”
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A Case of Growth Hormone Use in Dyggve–Melchior–Clausen Syndrome by Ravi Upadhyay, Claire Ruane, Rachel Umans, Beth A. Pletcher, Aditi Khokhar, Kristin Wong

“…Short stature has many causes including genetic disease, skeletal dysplasias, endocrinopathies, familial short stature, and nutritional deficiencies. …”
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Primary mucinous adenocarcinoma of the ureter and renal pelvis: A case report by Aparna A. N. Namshiker, Amala J. Kudchadker, R. G. Wiseman Pinto

“…Thus, a diagnosis of mucinous adenocarcinoma of the ureter and renal pelvis with intestinal metaplasia and dysplasia that occurred in association with a large staghorn calculus was made.…”
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The Role of Duodenogastroesophageal Reflux in the Progression of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease: From Esophagitis to Adenocarcinoma by O. A. Storonova, A. V. Paraskevova, A. A. Makushina

“…Aim: to present data on the role of bile acids in the progression of Barrett's esophagus (BE) and the development of esophageal dysplasia and adenocarcinoma and to provide a rationale for the use of ursodeoxycholic acid in addition to basic therapy in patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD).Key points. …”
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