Uncommon causes include gastrinoma, medullary thyroid carcinoma ( which produces excess calcitonin ), factitious diarrhea from laxative abuse and villous adenoma.
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The slender pedicels ( 1-3 mm ), rachis and hypanthium are villous and closely appressed, but hypanthium only abaxially.
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Since villous plaque contains inflammatory cells it is reasonable to suspect that these lesions are more recently formed than milk spots or chagasic rosary.
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Histological examination of the small bowel shows varying degrees of villous atrophy, with low or without mononuclear cell infiltration of the lamina propria.
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Villous plaque is characterized by exophytic epicardial thickening, meaning that the growth occurs at the border of the epicardium and not the center of mass.
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An undifferentiated cytotrophoblastic stem cell will differentiate into a villous cytotrophoblast, which is what constitutes primary chorionic villi, and will eventually coalesce into villous syncytiotrophoblast.
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An undifferentiated cytotrophoblastic stem cell will differentiate into a villous cytotrophoblast, which is what constitutes primary chorionic villi, and will eventually coalesce into villous syncytiotrophoblast.
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If a villous polyp, a polyp > 1 centimeter or high grade dysplasia is found, it can be repeated after 3 years, then every 5 years.
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From Greek ??????, pteron, a wing, and ??????, kephale, a head, in reference to the receptacle of the flowers being villous or chaffy.
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Several studies show an incomplete recovery of small bowel despite a strict gluten-free diet, and about 79 % of the treated patients have persistent villous atrophy.
