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====Micro====
====Micro====
The sections show colonic mucosa with abundant intraepithelial lymphocytes. The glandular architecture is normal. No thickened collagen band is apparent below the epithelium.
=====Lymphocytic colitis=====
The sections show colonic mucosa with abundant intraepithelial lymphocytes (>20 lymphocytes/100 surface epithelial cells). The glandular architecture is normal. No thickened collagen band is apparent below the epithelium.


There are no granuloma. No neutrophilic cryptitis is apparent. The epithelium matures appropriately to the surface.
There are no granuloma. No neutrophilic cryptitis is apparent. The epithelium matures
appropriately to the surface.


==Diversion colitis==
==Diversion colitis==