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Chylous ascites and intestinal muscular hypertrophy occurring in the course of celiac sprue

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Chylous ascites developed in the course of celiac sprue and disappeared on treatment. Its presence was probably related to the mesenteric nodal hyperplasia which is known to occur in celiac sprue. Muscular hypertrophy of the intestinal wall was found and may be related to the motility disorders of celiac sprue. Its improvement appears to parallel mucosal improvement.

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    Herbert J. Kaufmann MD

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Kaufmann, H.J. Chylous ascites and intestinal muscular hypertrophy occurring in the course of celiac sprue. Digest Dis Sci 20, 494–497 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01070797

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