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Collagenous colitis

Report of a case

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Diseases of the Colon & Rectum

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A 50-year-old woman presented with a long history of nausea, abdominal pain, weight loss, and intermittent watery diarrhea. All investigations were negative except for the finding, on five separate colonoscopic biopsies, of a layer of band-like collagen beneath the surface epithelium, diagnostic of collagenous colitis.

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  1. Gastroenterology Unit and the Department of Pathology, Meir Hospital, Kfar Sava, Israel

    C. Yeshaya,  B. Novis (Head Gastroenterology), J. Bernheim, G. Leichtmann, M. Samara & B. Griffel

  2. Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Hashomer, Israel

    C. Yeshaya,  B. Novis (Head Gastroenterology), J. Bernheim, G. Leichtmann, M. Samara & B. Griffel

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Yeshaya, C., Novis, B., Bernheim, J. et al. Collagenous colitis. Dis Colon Rectum 27, 111–113 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02553988

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