Biopsy interpretation of colonic biopsies when inflammatory bowel disease is excluded

Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 226-248

  Khor, Tze S ^a,b   Fujita, Hiroshi ^c   Nagata, Koji ^d   Shimizu, Michio ^d   Lauwers, Gregory Y ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b PATHWEST LABORATORY MEDICINE   (Australia)

^c KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d SAITAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biopsy interpretation; Differential diagnosis; Inflammatory bowel disease; Non idiopathic inflammatory bowel disease

Indexed keywords

AMEBIASIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; COLITIS; COLLAGENOUS COLITIS; COLON BIOPSY; COLONOSCOPY; CYSTIC COLITIS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIVERSION COLITIS; DIVERTICULOSIS ASSOCIATED COLITIS; ENTERITIS; ENTEROCOLITIS; ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; EOSINOPHILIC COLITIS; EOSINOPHILIC GASTROENTERITIS; FOCAL ACTIVE COLITIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFECTIOUS COLITIS; INTESTINE INFECTION; INTESTINE TUBERCULOSIS; ISCHEMIC COLITIS; LYMPHOCYTIC COLITIS; MASTOCYTIC ENTEROCOLITIS; MICROSCOPIC COLITIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PNEUMATOSIS INTESTINALIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLITIS; RADIATION COLITIS; SOLITARY RECTAL ULCER SYNDROME; SPIROCHETE INFECTION; STOMACH ANTRUM PROLAPSE;

BIOPSY; COLONIC DISEASES; COLONOSCOPY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES; INTESTINAL MUCOSA;

EID: 84863103365     PISSN: 09441174     EISSN: 14355922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00535-012-0539-6     Document Type: Article

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