N12 Microscopic colitis: struggling with an invisible, disabling disease
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Microscopic colitis: an unfamiliar but treatable disease.
Chronic diarrhoea is a frequent complaint in clinical practice. Microscopic colitis is the cause of this symptom in 10% of these cases and the prevalence is rising. To exclude microscopic colitis a colonoscopy with multiple biopsies of different regions of the colon is mandatory. A sigmoidoscopy alone is insufficient. Two histopathological types of microscopic colitis can be distinguished: coll...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Crohn's and Colitis
سال: 2019
ISSN: 1873-9946,1876-4479
DOI: 10.1093/ecco-jcc/jjy222.1000