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What does non-specific inflammation of the colon mean? crohns was not diagnosed on the biopsy
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Context please: "nonspecific inflammation" takes on different significance if the biopsy was randomly procured from normal-looking mucosa in an asymptiomatic setting versus if the biopsy was taken from irritated colon lining in a patient in distress who may be at risk of infection, ischemia, inflammatory bowel disease. Need a little help please with more clinical information from you.
Answered 10/1/2017
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Horrible term: It really is a horrible term. It is used by pathologists to refer to the fact that there are inflammatory cells present but that the "story that they tell" is not characteristic of one and only one disease entity. In other words, they could be there for any number of reasons. So in your case it will not get you any closer to the answer of why you have the symptoms that you do.
Answered 11/19/2016
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