Descending colon biopsy : consists of focally distorted colorectal mucosa with ulceration. Fibrosis, hypertrophy of muscularis mucosa is present. No granulomas are identified. Negative for dysplasia.
I know that negative for dysplasia means it doesn't look like cancer. I don't understand the other parts of that description though.
At the end it says the findings for the descending colon are not specific with differentials including ischemic changes, IBD, infection, etc.. . To me it means the pathologist can't say for certain what it is? Yet ulceration isn't normal and the other things don't sound normal either.
The CT scan with just the contrast I drank said that there was bowel wall thickening at the level of the splenic flexure with mild adjacent hazy stranding. Not really clear because I couldn't have the iv contrast. The appearance is non specific and could indicate underlying ischemic colitis, inflammatory bowel disease or non specific infectious colitis.
Can anyone translate this? I don't talk to my GI until October 8th when I have my telephone appointment. I have a telephone appointment on September 15th with my family doctor but I kind of doubt she would understand it as much as my GI would.