Research on Trypanosoma cruzi and Analysis of Inflammatory Infiltrate in Esophagus and Colon from Chronic Chagasic Patients with and without Mega
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(a) Amastigotes forms of T. cruzi in muscular in case of megaesophagus (immunohistochemistry for T. cruzi—400x). (b) Aganglionosis and fibrosis in myenteric plexus in case of megaesophagus (HE—200x). (c) Severe chronic myositis in a case of megaesophagus (HE—400x). (d) Mild chronic ganglionitis in esophagus without mega (HE—400x). (e) Severe chronic ganglionitis surrounded by eosinophils in a case of megaesophagus (Giemsa—400x). (f) Myositis with granuloma in a case of megacolon (Giemsa—1000x).
