Cobblestone appearance (hollow viscera)
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Cobblestoning (having a cobblestone appearance) can occur in a number of hollow organs with mucosa, most commonly the bowel, in the setting of Crohn's disease.
Longitudinal and circumferential fissures and ulcers separate islands of mucosa, giving it an appearance reminiscent of cobblestones.
Cobblestone appearance has been reported in:
- Crohn's disease: small and large bowel
- candida oesophagitis 1
- Hirschsprung disease 4
- eosinophillic gastritis 5
- duodenitis
- Brunner gland hyperplasia/hamartoma of the duodenum 5
- nodular lymphoid hyperplasia in duodenal cap
Other disease processes can present with a cobblestone-like imaging characteristics.
- steinstrasse (impaced stones in the ureter)
- intraluminal adhesions of the fallopian tubes on hysterosalpingography 2
- cobblestone lissencephaly(in the brain) 3
-<li><a title="duodenitis" href="/articles/duodenitis">duodenitis</a></li>- +<li><a href="/articles/duodenitis">duodenitis</a></li>
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