Pouchitis

Epidemiology:

Common sites:

Gross features:

Histologic features:

• may be indistinguishable from IBD
• decreased epithelial cell mucin
• decreased or absent lymphoid follicles
• ulceration
• patchy accumulations of neutrophils in the lamina propria
• crypt abscesses

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