title: [A case of giant cell microscopic colitis?].
abstract: Microscopic colitis is the most common cause of chronic watery diarrhea, with normal mucosal appearance during colonoscopy. The diagnosis is made by pathological examination of biopsy specimens showing colitis with normal architecture of the mucosa. The two most frequent forms of microscopic colitis are lymphocytic colitis and collagenous colitis, but other atypical variants have been described. We report a case of lymphocytic colitis with multinucleated large cells and we discuss a variant of giant cells microscopic colitis.
authors.affiliation: Service de pathologie, hôpital Saint-Louis, AP-HP, 1, avenue Claude-Vellefaux, 75010 Paris, France.
authors.forename: Juliette
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Duclos
authors.forename: Haitham
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kussaibi
authors.forename: Vincent
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Pacault
authors.forename: Hélène
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Roussel
authors.forename: Wissam
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Sandid
authors.forename: Anne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Janin
authors.forename: Philippe
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bertheau
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001706:Biopsy; D046730:Colitis, Lymphocytic / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology*; D003113:Colonoscopy; D015726:Giant Cells / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D006854:Hydrocortisone / Q000627:therapeutic use; D007413:Intestinal Mucosa / Q000473:pathology*; D008139:Loperamide / Q000627:therapeutic use; D019808:Losartan / Q000627:therapeutic use; D008297:Male; D050198:Phenoxypropanolamines / Q000627:therapeutic use; D013974:Thyroxine / Q000627:therapeutic use
chemical_list: D050198:Phenoxypropanolamines; D008139:Loperamide; C009976:moprolol; D019808:Losartan; D013974:Thyroxine; D006854:Hydrocortisone