title: [Prevalence of the microscopic colitis to the course of the chronic diarrhea: about 150 cases].
abstract: The goal of our survey is to value the microscopic colitis frequency at 150 patients, colliged on a period of 6 years (1997-2003), that have a chronic diarrhea with a normal total coloscopy and that benefitted of systematic biopsies. The microscopic colitis has been recovered at 44 patients on 150 either 29.3%. 16 of our patients (37%) are put on Salazopyrine, they answered well to the treatment with a receding of 3 years. The microscopic colitis is a pathology whose frequency seems under valued, it is certainly benign but can give a frequent diarrhea requiring a curative treatment.
authors.affiliation: Service de Gastroentérologie, Hôpital Mohamed Tahar Maamouri de Nabeul.
authors.forename: Mejda
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Essid
authors.forename: Sana
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kallel
authors.forename: Ehsen
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ben Brahim
authors.forename: Samia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Chatti
authors.forename: Mohamed Msaddak
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Azzouz
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001706:Biopsy; D002908:Chronic Disease; D046728:Colitis, Microscopic / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000473:pathology; D003625:Data Collection; D003967:Diarrhea / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015995:Prevalence; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014416:Tunisia / Q000453:epidemiology