Catalog
Collagenous colitis
Link to WHO Definition
Collagenous colitis – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/1322041450
Collagenous colitis is characterised by chronic watery diarrhoea, normal radiological and endoscopic appearance of the colon, and a specific histopathological feature consisting in the presence of a subepithelial collagen band (10 mm or more) adjacent to the basal membrane, together with epithelial lymphocyte infiltration and chronic inflammation of the lamina propria.