LYMPHOCYTIC AND COLLAGENOUS COLITIS - A S TRICTLY ANATOMOPATHOLOGICALDIAGNOSIS - A SINGLE DISORDER

Authors
SAINTBLANCARD P THIOLET C BOUCHER E CRUEL T LEROY X GROS P
Citation
P. Saintblancard et al., LYMPHOCYTIC AND COLLAGENOUS COLITIS - A S TRICTLY ANATOMOPATHOLOGICALDIAGNOSIS - A SINGLE DISORDER, Annales de Gastroenterologie et d'Hepatologie, 33(2), 1997, pp. 78-82
Citations number
40
Categorie Soggetti
Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Journal title
Annales de Gastroenterologie et d'Hepatologie → ACNP
ISSN journal
00662070
Volume
33
Issue
2
Year of publication
1997
Pages
78 - 82
Database
ISI
SICI code
0066-2070(1997)33:2<78:LACC-A>2.0.ZU;2-V
Abstract
Lymphocytic and collagenous colitis: a strictly anatomopathological di agnosis. A single disorder? - Collagenous and lymphocytic colitis are characterised by chronic watery diarrhea, normal radiographic and endo scopic findings, but by different histolopathological features. They a re differentiated by the presence or absence of subepithelial collagen table thickeness. They seem to be autoimmune disorders. They are part and parcel of the same spectrum of disease.