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. 2022 Oct 17;194(40):E1377-E1380.
doi: 10.1503/cmaj.220680.

Lymphocytic colitis associated with entacapone

David M Rodrigues  1 , Eugene Hsieh  1 , Michael Bernstein  1 , David N Juurlink  2
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Lymphocytic colitis associated with entacapone

David M Rodrigues et al. CMAJ. .

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Figure 1:
Figure 1:
Computed tomography scan of the abdomen and pelvis of an 84-year-old man with lymphocytic colitis, showing a fluid-filled colon with no other signs of inflammation, such as mural thickening or fat stranding.
Figure 2:
Figure 2:
Biopsy specimen from the ascending colon of an 84-year-old man with lymphocytic colitis (hematoxylin and eosin at ×20 magnification), showing intraepithelial lymphocytes (arrows) with relative sparing of crypt architecture and no thickening of subepithelial collagen band.
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