Difference between revisions of "Colon"

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**Thickening "follows the crypts from the surface" - useful for differentiating from tangential sections of the basement membrane.<ref>BEC 4 Mar 2009</ref>
**Thickening "follows the crypts from the surface" - useful for differentiating from tangential sections of the basement membrane.<ref>BEC 4 Mar 2009</ref>
**Collagen may envelope capillaries - useful to discern from basement membrane.<ref>BEC 4 Mar 2009</ref>
**Collagen may envelope capillaries - useful to discern from basement membrane.<ref>BEC 4 Mar 2009</ref>
*NEGATIVES<ref name=hopkins_cc_lc/>
 
Images:
*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Collagenous_colitis_-_intermed_mag.jpg Collagenous colitis - intermed mag. (WC)].
*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Collagenous_colitis_-_high_mag.jpg Collagenous colitis - high mag. (WC)].
 
Notes:
*CC is typically more prominent in the proximal colon - may reflect concentration gradient of offending causitive agents.<ref name=pmid19109861/>
*Significant negative findings:<ref name=hopkins_cc_lc/>
**No [[PMN]]s.
**No [[PMN]]s.
**No crypt distortion.
**No crypt distortion.
Notes: CC is typically more prominent in the proximal colon - may reflect concentration gradient of offending causitive agents.<ref name=pmid19109861/>


==Spirochetes==
==Spirochetes==
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