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Endoscopy showed patchy redness and thickened gastric folds including an exudate involving the gastric antrum and the first part of the duodenum.
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Endoscopy showed patchy redness and thickened gastric folds including exudate involving the gastric antrum and the first part of the duodenum (Figure 1).
H&E showed focal areas of sloughed epithelium, refractive brown deposits (black arrows), and collections of inflammatory cells within the disrupted gastric pits.
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Histopathological examination showed focal areas of sloughed epithelium associated with mucinous material and focal collections of lymphocytes and eosinophils within some disrupted gastric pits (Figure 2).
Special staining with PBR (black arrows) confirmed the refractile brown material to be iron deposits.
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Prussian blue (PBR) staining confirmed it to be iron deposits (Figure 3).