Clinical characteristics of microscopic Colitis in a single tertiary referral center
VÁ Patai, C Csóka, Á Csontos, T Micsik, M Juhász, K Müllner, E Mihály, L Herszényi, Z Tulassay, P Miheller · Zeitschrift für Gastroenterologie · 2015 · Heft 05
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Background: Microscopic colitis (MC) is an increasingly recognized, frequent cause of chronic diarrhea. Its epidemiology was described in several Western countries, however epidemiologic data from Eastern Europe is lacking. We aimed to investigate MC cases in our single tertiary referral center cohort. Methods: All cases of microscopic colitis diagnosed at colonoscopy over a 17-year period (January 1997 – August 2014) were retrieved at the 1st Department of Pathology and retrospectively reviewed. The diagnostic criteria for lymphocytic colitis (LC) were ≥20 intraepithelial lymphocytes per 100 epithelial cells, a…
