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Case Reports
. 2020 Oct;73(10):686.
doi: 10.1136/jclinpath-2020-206743. Epub 2020 Jun 1.

Haemorrhagic enteritis and COVID-19: causality or coincidence

Anjali D Amarapurkar  1 , Priyanka Vichare  2 , Nidhi Pandya  2 , Sneha Deshpande  3
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Case Reports

Haemorrhagic enteritis and COVID-19: causality or coincidence

Anjali D Amarapurkar et al. J Clin Pathol. 2020 Oct.
No abstract available

Keywords: blood coagulation; diagnosis; gastroenterology; gastrointestinal diseases.

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Competing interests: None declared.

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Axial (A) precontrast and (B) postcontrast venous phase showing long segment small bowel wall thickening (white arrows) with high-density areas in the bowel wall (black arrow in A) representing haemorrhage with mild ascites. (C) Histopathology showing extensive transmural haemorrhages (He 100×).
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