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Intestinal lymphangiectasia in a 33-month-old girl

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Annals of Diagnostic Paediatric Pathology

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A case of intestinal lymphangiectasia in a 33-month-old girl is presented. Light microscopy showed only focal lesions consistent with this entity. The ultrastructural findings of normal absorptive cells with expansion of the basolateral intercellular spaces containing fluid and occasional lymphocytes in histologically normal adjacent areas of jejunal biopsies suggest that the use of electron microscopy may help to diagnose intestinal lymphangiectasia when the lesions are focal or less evident under light microscopy.

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  1. L. David Mirkin

    Present address: The Children’s Medical Center, One Children’s Plaza, Dayton, OH, 45404-1815, USA

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  1. Department of Pathology, Wright State University School of Medicine, Children’s Medical Center, Dayton, Ohio, USA

    L. David Mirkin

  2. Department of Pediatrics, Wright State University School of Medicine, Children’s Medical Center, Dayton, Ohio, USA

    L. David Mirkin & Adam Mezoff

  3. Departments of Pathology and Pediatrics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Primary Children’s Medical Center, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

    Theodore J. Pysher

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Mirkin, L.D., Mezoff, A. & Pysher, T.J. Intestinal lymphangiectasia in a 33-month-old girl. Ann Diagn Paed Pathol 2, 31–35 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/s100570050006

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