Collagenous Colitis
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Repeated colonic and rectal biopsies from a 47-year-old woman with chronic watery diarrhoea showed an approximately 50 micrometer thick subepithelial band-like collagenous deposit. The histopathological and clinical picture was consistent with the recently described condition of 'collagenous colitis'.
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