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cryptitis

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cryptitis /cryp·ti·tis/ (krip-ti´tis) inflammation of a crypt, especially the anal crypts.
cryp·ti·tis (krp-tts)
n.
Inflammation of a crypt or crypts, particularly in the rectum.

cryptitis [krip-ti´tis]
inflammation of a crypt.
anal cryptitis inflammation of the mucous membrane of the anal crypts.

cryptitis
inflammation of the mucous membrane of the anal crypts.


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Rectal biopsy showed crypt distortion and cryptitis, with heavy mixed inflammatory cell infiltration (mostly plasma cells and eosinophils) within lamina propria.
Characteristic histologic features include submucosal fibrosis, disruption of the muscularis mucosa, mild inflammation with or without eosinophils, and cryptitis.
These sections had features suggestive of IBD with ulcers, cryptitis, goblet cell hyperplasia, increased crypt mitoses, and deformed (branching, elongated, and dilated) crypts.
 
 
 
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