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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> | ||
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**No [[PMN]]s. | **No [[PMN]]s. | ||
**No crypt distortion. | **No crypt distortion. | ||
*Should not be diagnosed in the cecum - as it (normally) has a thickened subepithelial collagen band. ( | *Should not be diagnosed in the cecum - as it (normally) has a thickened subepithelial collagen band.{{fact}} | ||
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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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