A severe but reversible refractory sprue
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Refractory coeliac sprue is a diffuse gastrointestinal disease.
BACKGROUND Refractory coeliac sprue (RCS) with an immunophenotypically aberrant clonal intraepithelial lymphocyte (IEL) population is considered a cryptic form of intestinal T cell lymphoma. AIMS To investigate the distribution of the abnormal and monoclonal IEL population in the digestive tract of RCS patients. PATIENTS AND METHODS We compared the frequency of lymphocytic gastritis (LG) an...
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عنوان ژورنال: Gut
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0017-5749
DOI: 10.1136/gut.2005.089987