PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Lysandra Voltaggio
AU  - Dora Lam-Himlin
AU  - Berkeley N Limketkai
AU  - Aatur D Singhi
AU  - Christina A Arnold
TI  - Message in a bottle: decoding medication injury patterns in the gastrointestinal tract
AID  - 10.1136/jclinpath-2014-202511
DP  - 2014 Oct 01
TA  - Journal of Clinical Pathology
PG  - 903--912
VI  - 67
IP  - 10
4099  - http://jcp.bmj.com/content/67/10/903.short
4100  - http://jcp.bmj.com/content/67/10/903.full
SO  - J Clin Pathol2014 Oct 01; 67
AB  - Medication injury in the gastrointestinal tract (GIT) is a rapidly evolving topic. Increasing endoscopy together with an ageing population, polypharmacy, and a burgeoning drug industry offer heightened opportunities to observe the unintended side effects of therapeutic ingestants. In this review, we emphasise the most commonly encountered medication injuries involving the GIT, as well as emerging agents and mimics. While topics are organised by organ system, the reader should keep in mind that injury patterns are generally not site-specific. As such, awareness of these major morphologic patterns can be translated to multiple tissue sites to more broadly facilitate the diagnostic process.