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active self limited colitis
Sunday 5 June 2022
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Synopsis
inflammation of lamina propria (active much greater than chronic), edema, hemorrhage
usually lacks features of chronicity (crypt architectural distortion, lymphoplasmacytosis, pyloric gland metaplasia, Paneth cell metaplasia in the left colon)
neutrophil induced epithelial injury (cryptitis)
severe cases have crypt abscesses, extensive necrosis, hemorrhage and microthrombi
See also
acute colitis
