Small bowel morphology in British Indian and Afro-Caribbean subjects: evidence of tropical enteropathy.

Distal duodenal biopsy specimens taken from 30 white, 35 Indian, and 20 Afro-Caribbean residents of West Birmingham during routine endoscopy for dyspepsia, were assessed by dissecting microscopy and morphometry. Finger-shaped villi were significantly less frequent in the Indian and Afro-Caribbean su...

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Main Authors: Wood, G M, Gearty, J C, Cooper, B T
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 1991
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1378829/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2013420
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