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Coeliac disease: villous atrophy

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The small-intestinal mucosa three times on the same scale: normal tall villi and short crypts; partial villous atrophy; and a flat mucosa with long hyperplastic crypts, crowded intraepithelial lymphocytes and an inflamed lamina propria, as in coeliac disease. Shown with a real biopsy slide.

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