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Cryptal lymphocytic coloproctitis: a new phenotype of lymphocytic colitis?
Journal of clinical pathology - 1 Feb 2002
Rubio C A, Lindholm J
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BACKGROUND/AIMS: Lymphocytic colitis is a clinicopathological entity characterised by protracted watery diarrhoea and an increased number of intraepithelial lymphocytes (IELs) in the surface epithelium of the colonic mucosa. This report describes two patients with symptoms similar to those of lymphocytic colitis and an increased number of IELs, but within the cryptal epithelium. METHODS: The numbers of IELs were...
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