[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
diarrhea 4) , and some gastroenterologists perform routine mucosal biopsies to exclude
organic causes of chronic diarrhea that can only be diagnosed microscopically even when the …

Chronic diarrhea: diagnosis and management

LR Schiller, DS Pardi, JH Sellin - Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 2017 - Elsevier
… be biopsied in a patient with chronic diarrhea. The effectiveness of EGD in diagnosing CD
may depend on the biopsy … duodenal bulb alone, and so biopsies should be obtained from the …

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

JB Marshall, R Singh… - American Journal of …, 1995 - search.ebscohost.com
… that taking biopsies from normal-… two other conditions that reportedly cause diarrhea when
colonic endoscopy and radiography are normal but that can be diagnosed by taking biopsies

Chronic diarrhea: to biopsy or not to biopsy

LR Schiller - Gastrointestinal endoscopy, 2005 - giejournal.org
many or too few? To answer that question, we must consider what diseases we are looking
for with biopsies in patients with chronic diarrhea … a proper histologic diagnosis is to provide …

[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. …

[PDF][PDF] Differential Diagnosis for Chronic Diarrhea: Are Multiple Random Biopsies with Colonoscopy Mandatory?

SH Lee, SB Kang - Clinical Endoscopy, 2021 - e-ce.org
… necrosis factor-alpha inhibitors can be effective in the treatment of patients with MC.Therefore
multiple random biopsies should be performed to evaluate the cause 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
… directly, the diagnostic advantages of … many years, patients with chronic diarrhea evaluated
by our clinical gastroenterology group have undergone colonoscopy with random biopsies

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
… The purpose of this study was to investigate the diagnostic yield of total colonoscopy and
biopsy with ileoscopy in non-HIV patients referred for unexplained chronic diarrhea. …

[HTML][HTML] Chronic diarrhea in adults: evaluation and differential diagnosis

K Burgers, B Lindberg, ZJ Bevis - American family physician, 2020 - aafp.org
… to yield a diagnosis. When colonoscopy is performed to evaluate chronic diarrhea, multiple
mucosal biopsies should be taken, even if the endoscopic mucosal appearance is normal. …

Endoscopic diagnosis of chronic diarrhea

Y Kinoshita, R Ariyoshi, S Fujigaki, K Tanaka… - DEN …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
… histopathological examination is added with multiple biopsy specimens. In colonoscopic
studies performed for patients with non-bloody chronic diarrhea, microscopic colitis is the most …