Gastroenterology · Gastroenterology / Inflammatory bowel disease
Microscopic colitis syndrome
also: Collagenous and lymphocytic colitis
Chronic watery diarrhea with normal colonoscopy and characteristic histology.
- Specialty
- Gastroenterology
- Subspecialty
- Gastroenterology / Inflammatory bowel disease
- Sex & age distribution
- Male: affected; Female: affected, 3–5:1 female predominance; Children: rare
- Gene(s) involved
- HLA-DQ2, HLA-DQ8
- Alternative names & eponyms
- Collagenous and lymphocytic colitis
Etiology & mechanism
Immune-mediated colonic inflammation.
Gene(s) involved (2)
Symptoms & signs (5)
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