Comprehensive treatment and a rare presentation of Cronkhite–Canada syndrome: Two case reports and review of literature

Figure 8 Histologic examination of biopsy samples from Patient 2. A: Gastroscopic pathology, suggesting active chronic inflammation with distorted, branched, and hyperplastic glands; B: Presence of active chronic colitis, cryptitis and crypt abscesses, with hyperplastic or atrophic, dilated, and distorted glands. Interstitial edema and eosinophil infiltration were also observed; C: The rectal mass was a villous tubular adenoma, indicative of high-grade intraepithelial neoplasia, with no apparent involvement of blood vessels or surgical margins. Magnification: 4 ×.