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Case Report

Volume 17, Number 4, August 2024, pages 189-193

Adult-Onset Autoimmune Enteropathy Mimicking Disaccharidase Deficiency

Figures

Figure 1.
Figure 1. Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy showing slightly atrophic duodenum.
Figure 2.
Figure 2. Duodenal biopsy (hematoxylin and eosin stain) showing chronic active enteropathy with moderate to severe villous blunting, lamina propria lymphoplasmacytic inflammation, neutrophilic cryptitis (a), goblet cell and Paneth cell depletion (b), increased crypt epithelial apoptosis (arrows) (c), and intraepithelial lymphocytosis (d).