Duodenal mucosa shows focal moderate villous atrophy associated intraepithelial lymphocytosis and crypt hyperplasia with submucosal mild infiltrate of lymphocytes and plasma cells. No evidence of specific granulomas. No evidence of atypia or malignancy.
Epigastric pain and anemia two months post-cholecystectomy, who underwent an upper GI endoscopy that appeared macroscopically normal but required duodenal biopsies to rule out villous atrophy.
Soft tissue fragments collectively measured 0.5 cm, totally embedded.