Histopathological diagnosis of microscopic colitis
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Microscopic colitis: a missed diagnosis?
CONTEXT Collagenous colitis and lymphocytic colitis, collectively designated microscopic colitis, have until recently been considered as rare gastrointestinal disorders. New data suggest, however, that these disorders are relatively common, and to reach the correct diagnosis both the gastroenterologist and the pathologist must be aware of these diagnoses when evaluating patients with persistent...
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Microscopic colitis is a syndrome of chronic watery diarrhoea for which no cause can be identified other than the presence of diffuse, chronic inflammation in the lamina propria on colonic biopsy. Endoscopically and radiologically the colon appears normal. We studied case records of 215 patients presenting to our institution over a three year period with chronic diarrhoea. Nineteen patients wer...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0815-9319,1440-1746
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1746.2006.04332.x