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***8 micrometres is the diameter of a RBC. | ***8 micrometres is the diameter of a RBC. | ||
***The normal thickness of the subepithelial collagen is 3 micrometres.<ref name=pmid19109861/> | ***The normal thickness of the subepithelial collagen is 3 micrometres.<ref name=pmid19109861/> | ||
***Transverse colon usually thickest - in one series ~47 micrometres on average.<ref name=pmid10208468>{{Cite journal | last1 = Offner | first1 = FA. | last2 = Jao | first2 = RV. | last3 = Lewin | first3 = KJ. | last4 = Havelec | first4 = L. | last5 = Weinstein | first5 = WM. | title = Collagenous colitis: a study of the distribution of morphological abnormalities and their histological detection. | journal = Hum Pathol | volume = 30 | issue = 4 | pages = 451-7 | month = Apr | year = 1999 | doi = | PMID = 10208468 }} | |||
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**Thickening "follows the crypts from the surface" - useful for differentiating from tangential sections of the basement membrane.<ref name=bell>Bell, D. 4 Mar 2009.</ref> | **Thickening "follows the crypts from the surface" - useful for differentiating from tangential sections of the basement membrane.<ref name=bell>Bell, D. 4 Mar 2009.</ref> | ||
**Collagen may envelope capillaries - useful to discern from basement membrane.<ref name=bell>Bell, D. 4 Mar 2009.</ref> | **Collagen may envelope capillaries - useful to discern from basement membrane.<ref name=bell>Bell, D. 4 Mar 2009.</ref> | ||