Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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3475037 | Italian Journal of Medicine | 2009 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
This is a rare, benign condition, pathologically characterized by an important eosinophilic infiltration of the wall of the digestive tract and presents a constellation of symptoms that are related to the degree and area of the gastrointestinal tract affected. Primary eosinophilic gastroenteritis encompasses multiple disease entities subcategorized into three types on the basis of the level of histologic involvement: mucosal, muscolaris and serosal forms. Every layer of the gastrointestinal tract can be involved, so that endoscopic biopsy can be normal in patients with the muscolaris subtype, serosal subtype, or both.
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Authors
Chiara Benatti, Carla Sacchetti, Antonio Pedrazzi, Claudio Gollini, Federica Vecchi, Stefano Pederzoli, Marco Grandi,