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focal active colitis

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Synopsis

- focal neutrophilic infiltrates in crypt epithelium
- neutrophilic infiltrates in lamina propria

Etiology

- Crohn disease (10%-17%)
- acute infectious-type colitis (27% to 50%)
- allergic colitis
- ulcerative colitis
- Hirschsprung disease
- idiopathic focal active colitis (27%)

See also

- focal active gastritis

References

- Xin W, Brown PI, Greenson JK. The clinical significance of focal active colitis in pediatric patients. Am J Surg Pathol. 2003 Aug;27(8):1134-8. PMID: 12883246

- Wightman HR. Active focal colitis. Hum Pathol. 1998 Aug;29(8):887-8. PMID: 9712435

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