Article
Celiac disease: histology-differential diagnosis-complications. A practical approach.
Pathologica - 1 Sept 2020
Villanacci Vincenzo, Vanoli Alessandro, Leoncini Giuseppe, Arpa Giovanni, Salviato Tiziana, Bonetti Luca Reggiani, Baronchelli Carla, Saragoni Luca, Parente Paola
Abstract excerpt
Celiac disease is a multi-factorial chronic inflammatory intestinal disease, characterized by malabsorption resulting from mucosal injury after ingestion of wheat gluten or related rye and barley proteins. Inappropriate T-cell-mediated immune response against ingested gluten in genetically predisposed people, leads to characteristic histological lesions, as villous atrophy and intraepithelial lymphocytosis....
Topics
- Biopsy
- Celiac Disease
- Diagnosis, Differential
- Duodenitis
- Duodenum
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Glutens
- Humans
- Intestinal Mucosa
- Intestine, Small