A quantitative assessment of jejunal villous damage in coeliac disease, using the mucosal index.

Autor: Challacombe DN, McDonald DT, Wheeler EE
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Hepato-gastroenterology [Hepatogastroenterology] 1983 Jun; Vol. 30 (3), pp. 113-5.
Abstrakt: A semi-automatic method has been used to study the morphology of sections of the jejunal mucosa from adults with coeliac disease and from normal controls. Mucosal morphology was quantified in each patient by using the Mucosal Index (surface mucosal length/muscularis mucosal length), which numerically expressed the degree of villous flattening present in patients with coeliac disease.
Databáze: MEDLINE