Gastrointestinal Pathology for Medical II Students

Lab 2a Normal Jejunal Mucosa (65000-00100)

Slide 1 
This is a low power view of the glass slide in your class set. The mucosa of the jejunum is thrown into plical folds (arrows) which are covered with the intestinal villi.

mucosa

Slide 2
Regularly spaced in the valleys between the villi, and numbering some 2-3 per villus, are the straight, tubular intestinal glands or crypts of Lieberkuhn. Given individual variation, the average villus height (VH) to crypt height (CH) in the jejunum is about 6:1. This ratio should always be assessed on evaluating small bowel biopsies because many malabsorptive diseases are characterized by villus atrophy with subsequent decrease in the villus/crypt height ratio.

villi

Digital Legends for Labs/Cases
Lab 1
1.a | 1.b | 1.c | 1.d | 1.e | 1.f | 1.g | 1.h | 1.i | 1.j | 1.k | 1.l | 1.m
Lab 2
2.a | 2.b | 2.c | 2.d | 2.e | 2.f | 2.g | 2.h | 2.i | 2.j | 2.k | 2.l | 2.m
Lab 3
3.a | 3.b | 3.c | 3.d | 3.e | 3.f | 3.g | 3.h | 3.i | 3.j | 3.k | 3.l

Medical II


Updated March 2, 2007