Journal of Clinical and Cellular Immunology
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Tuttolomondo A

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• Research Article
  Microscopic Colitis as a Diagnosis to Consider by Clinicians and Pathologists Together: A Case Series and Review of Literature
  Author(s): Tuttolomondo A, Raimondo DD, Orlando E, Corte VD, Bongiovanni L, Maida C, Musiari G, and Pinto ATuttolomondo A, Raimondo DD, Orlando E, Corte VD, Bongiovanni L, Maida C, Musiari G, and Pinto A
  
  Background: Microscopic colitis is a term used to define some clinical-pathological entities characterized by chronic watery diarrhea, normal radiological and endoscopic appearance, and microscopic abnormalities. Aim: In this article we report a personal case series of microscopic colitis in patients with different age and sex and symptomatic seriousness to better represent the heterogeneous clinical presentation of this type of disease, and a review of available literature data. Method:  A definitive diagnosis of microscopic colitis is only possible by histological analysis. Specific histopathological findings, such as morphologically mild or moderate inflammation in the lamina propria, combined with either thickening of the sub-epithelial collagenous or lymphocytic attack on the surface epitheli.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2155-9899.1000389

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