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Can endoscopy and biopsy to diagnose positive celiac disease be wrong? are there other conditions that damage celia like that?
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Yes: A superimposed infection can have a similar appearance on biopsy, so if someone had or just got over a gi bug it could lead to false positive.
Answered 10/31/2017
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