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Mucosa
Mucosa is the moist tissue that lines parts of the inside of your body, including your nose, mouth, lungs, and the urinary and digestive tracts.
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A 32-year old asked:
How does a normal mucosa look?
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A 46-year old female asked:
What does Chronically inflamed squamoglandular mucosa mean?
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A 25-year old female asked:
My delivery notes show a 4th degree tear that only involved rectal mucosa and the EAS (went just inferior to the IAS). Is this anatomically possible?
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A 41-year old asked:
What is nodular mucosa?
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A 39-year old asked:
What exactly is erythematous mucosa?
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A member asked:
What are polyps and what is normal mucosa?
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A male asked:
What is Oedematous Mucosa and how can be cured?
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A 34-year old female asked:
Grade2 esophagitis and mucosa inflamed distally?
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A 47-year old asked:
What does congested mucosa in the terminal ileum mean?
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A 45-year old asked:
Colonoscopy found multiple mucosa target lesions--what could cause this?
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A female asked:
Painless white lesion which involves buccal mucosa bilateral ,in 50 year old female?
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A 54-year old female asked:
What does it mean when they say strips and scant fragments of benign endocervical mucosa?
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A 31-year old asked:
I just had a colonoscopy and they found multiple mucosa targt lesions. What could causes this?
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A 32-year old female asked:
What does the statement "a diffuse are of mucosa in the terminal ileum was nodular" mean. I dont understand the medical language ?
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A 28-year old male asked:
I am a moderate smoker. Would cessation now guarantee no future leukoplakia. Or too late since mucosa is already damaged? (No leukoplakia right now)
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A 21-year old male asked:
What is flatish looking duodenal mucosa ?
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A 53-year old female asked:
What causes granular mucosa rectum?
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A 39-year old asked:
What does "flat mucosa" mean in an egd?
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A 33-year old female asked:
What is erythematous mucosa in the rectum?
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A 47-year old asked:
What does "flat mucosa" mean in egd report?
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A 61-year old female asked:
What is squamous vulvar mucosa without dysplagia?
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A 36-year old asked:
What should I do to treat leukoplakia buccal mucosa?
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A 32-year old female asked:
What does it mean to have glandular mucosa in an endoscopy diagnosis?
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A 22-year old female asked:
What is benign mucosa for a biopsy result mean? it is for a chrones pt.
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A female asked:
Today i saw a 50 year female patient with painless white lesions on buccal mucosa bilateral ,,what will be it ?
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A 33-year old female asked:
Localized irregularity of the mucosa was noted in the Z-line and gastroesophageal junction. Should I be worried?
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A 36-year old male asked:
Gastric antral mucosa showing vascularcongestion and increase no of neautrophils and plsma-lymphocyticcell infiltrate vth Lympoid aggregates means?
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A 31-year old female asked about a 58-year old female:
58yo F diagnosed Barrats Mucosa/Oesophagus via gastroscopy in 2010 How often should gastroscopy be repeated? Assuming NHS will just do minimum req'd
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A female asked:
I had a routine colonoscopy done yesterday all the results said normal mucosa in all areas but it said I have an extrinsic compression at cecum what ?
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A 24-year old male asked:
My rt buccal mucosa tissue feel to loose. Since it became from 8months i got biopsy also and resulting chronic lession oral. Now but it same like previous it feel too loose and folded. What to do now and what was the cause of became tissue loose?
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