PMC1322224_01
Small bowel double-contrast enteroclysis (detail) showing a stricture (arrow) of the terminal ileum with a thickening of the wall.
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F1
Small bowel double-contrast enteroclysis (Fig. 1) showed a stricture of the terminal ileum with a thickening of the wall without extravasation of the contrast material.
The ileal loop shows an important thickness of the wall with disappearance of the normal mucosal plicae.
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F2
There was no evidence of malignancy (Fig. 2).
Strong immunoreactivity for Chromogranin A of carcinoid tumor infiltrating the muscular layer of the intestinal wall is clearly evident. The deep ulcer of CD is also present. (Magnification: x25; Chromogen diaminobenzidine).
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F3
The latter consisted of quite uniform medium size cells with round nuclei and inconspicuous nucleoli growing in a trabecular or acinar pattern (Fig. 3).