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case_images: (a) Endoscopic view showing an extended colitis with edema and thickening of mucosa, (b) bleeding rectal polyp.
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case_images: (a) Diffuse infiltration of the colonic mucosa by numerous histiocytes with cy toplasmic inclusions, (b) lesion which stain positively with periodic acid-Schiff, Von Kossa, and Prussian blue stains: Michaelis-Gutmann bodies.
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case_images: The histopathological study showed a diffuse infiltration of the colonic mucosa by numerous histiocytes with cytoplasmic inclusions (Figure 2(a)), which stain positively with periodic acid-Schiff, Von Kossa, and Prussian blue stains (Figure 2(b)).
case_images: Endoscopic view after two years of treatment showing a normal intestinal mucosa.
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case_images: The colonoscopy was controlled after two years of antibiotic treatment; we found that infiltration and ulceration of intestinal mucosa had decreased with a normal rectum (Figure 3).