AboutNeha Dahiya MD Expertise I can help patients understand their lab report results, help them with queries regarding what pretest preparation is required. How often a follow up test needs to be done. What does a particular tissue biopsy report mean in everyday English. I can explain the biopsy or cytology procedure. I can deal with Histopathology / cytology / clinical pathology and clinical chemistry queries. Helping in this manner will be my contribution to the community.
Experience I am a pathologist and director of clinical laboratory services. I have been a practicing pathologist for last 9 years in a 350 bed multi specialty hospital laboratory.
Organizations Indian association of pathologists and microbiologists.
MIAC - Member International Academy of Cytology
International association of Pathologists - indian division
Indian association of Cytology
Question I had a colonoscopy with biopsies that indicated increased numbers of lamina propria eosinophils and reactive lymphoid follicles/nodules. I have been previously diagnosed as having crohns.
What do these results mean?
Answer Hello J:
if you have had a definitive diagnosis of Crohn's this present biopsy would be part of the same process.
The inflammatory cells like lymphocytes are arranged in groups in the lamina propria (one of the layers of the intestinal wall). These are called lymphoid follicles and when they are in response to some stimulus - foreign body / immune mediated etc they are called reactive follicle.
On their own this finding is non specific and indicates non specific colitis (inflammation of colon)
