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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> | ||
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*[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)]. | |||
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*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. | ||
==Spirochetes== | ==Spirochetes== |
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