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atrophy
(redirected from villous atrophy)

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The most reliable diagnostic test for celiac disease is the demonstration of villous atrophy on small-intestinal biopsy.
After a few tests, she was told that she has gastric atrophy and villous atrophy of the small bowel.
Although the pathology literature is replete with the use of the descriptor villous atrophy that carries over from the early descriptions of celiac histology,25-27 the Rubin experiments provided evidence that celiac changes are not atrophy, but that they are rapidly reversible injury by removing gluten.
 
 
 
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