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Letter
Colitis evolving into ulcerative colitis
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We observed the development of ulcerative colitis (UC) in a 37 year old young woman with clinical and histological features of lymphocytic colitis (LC) after a period of six years. Seven years ago, the patient was admitted to our gastroenterology unit complaining of watery diarrhoea (⩾6 stools/day). She had never smoked and she was not taking any drugs affecting gastrointestinal secretion or motility. Laboratory tests, including autoimmune antibody and upper endoscopy, were normal. Parasitological and bacteriological faecal stools were negative. Biopsies of the jejunum did not show a pattern of coeliac disease. Colonoscopy with terminal …
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