Usefulness of colonoscopy with biopsy in the evaluation of patients with chronic diarrhea

RJ Shah, C Fenoglio-Preiser, BL Bleau… - The American journal of …, 2001 - Elsevier
… of 228 patients with chronic diarrhea evaluated by colonoscopy between November …
colonoscopy and biopsy with ileoscopy in non-HIV patients referred for unexplained chronic diarrhea

[HTML][HTML] Importance of biopsies and histological evaluation in patients with chronic diarrhea and normal colonoscopies

FMN Kagueyama, FM Nicoli, MW Bonatto… - … Arquivos Brasileiros de …, 2014 - SciELO Brasil
… to evaluate whether serial biopsies in patients with chronic diarrhea and normal colonoscopy
findings contribute to the differential diagnosis and management of chronic diarrhea. …

The prevalence, anatomic distribution, and diagnosis of colonic causes of chronic diarrhea

KD Fine, RH Seidel, K Do - Gastrointestinal endoscopy, 2000 - Elsevier
chronic diarrhea evaluated by our clinical gastroenterology group have undergone colonoscopy
with random biopsies … Therefore, the biopsy specimens obtained from these patients …

Chronic, unexplained diarrhea: are biopsies necessary if colonoscopy is normal?

JB Marshall, R Singh… - American Journal of …, 1995 - search.ebscohost.com
… Conctusions: We conclude that the yield of biopsies in diarrhea patients … biopsies from
normal-appearing colorectal mucosa at endoscopy in patients with unexplained, chronic diarrhea

Histologic study of colonic mucosa in patients with chronic diarrhea and normal colonoscopic findings

JGN da Silva, T De Brito, AOMC Damião… - Journal of clinical …, 2006 - journals.lww.com
… With regard to the need of macroscopic study with biopsies of the entire colon in patients
with chronic diarrhea, authors who defend just the study of the distal colon 12 affirm that the …

Colonoscopy and SeHCAT for investigation of chronic diarrhea

M Müller, R Willén, PO Stotzer - Digestion, 2004 - karger.com
… The aim of this study was to establish the value of colonoscopy with biopsies in patients with
chronic diarrhea and to evaluate the additive value of a SeHCAT test for diagnosing BAM in …

[HTML][HTML] The role of mucosal biopsy in the diagnosis of chronic diarrhea: value of multiple biopsies when colonoscopic finding is normal or nonspecific

JH Lee, PL Rhee, JJ Kim, KC Koh… - The Korean journal of …, 1997 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… Flexible sigmoidoscopy or colonoscopy is often used … chronic diarrhea 4) , and some
gastroenterologists perform routine mucosal biopsies to exclude organic causes of chronic diarrhea

Routine colonic mucosal biopsy and ileoscopy increases diagnostic yield in patients undergoing colonoscopy for diarrhea

IF Yusoff, DG Ormonde… - … of gastroenterology and …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
… A small proportion of patients with chronic diarrhea (0.6%) had histological evidence of …
0–13% of patients with chronic diarrhea and normal colonoscopy. It is now well documented that …

[HTML][HTML] Diagnostic yield of random colon biopsy sampling in patients with chronic diarrhea and normal colonoscopy: a systematic review and meta-analysis

P Loganathan, BP Mohan, D Ramai, AK Muthusamy… - iGIE, 2023 - Elsevier
… colon biopsy sampling in patients with chronic diarrhea and normal colonoscopy provides a
… colon biopsy sampling from patients with chronic diarrhea and normal mucosal findings on …

The yield of colonic biopsy in the evaluation of chronic unexplained diarrhea

RM Genta, A Sonnenberg - European journal of gastroenterology …, 2015 - journals.lww.com
… In all patients of our study, colonoscopy was part of a workup for chronic diarrhea. Whereas
normal mucosa was mostly associated with random biopsies from unspecified colonic sites, …