Colon
Noninfectious colitis
Granulomatous colitis
Author: Hanni Gulwani, M.B.B.S.
Last author update: 1 May 2013
Last staff update: 30 September 2020
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PubMed Search: granulomatous colitis[title]
Cite this page: Gulwani H. Granulomatous colitis. PathologyOutlines.com website. https://www.pathologyoutlines.com/topic/colongranulomatous.html. Accessed December 23rd, 2024.
Etiology
- Due to Crohn disease, tuberculosis, Yersinia
Case reports
- 46 year old woman with Propionibacterium acnes, a low virulence skin bacteria (Arch Pathol Lab Med 2001;125:1491)
- 51 year old man with sarcoidosis, a rare cause of granulomatous enterocolitis (J Gastrointestin Liver Dis 2012;21:423)
Microscopic (histologic) images
Contributed by Chungja C. Shim, M.D.
Cause unknown
Differential diagnosis
- Normal germinal centers, tangential sections of blood vessels or pericryptal fibroblastic sheath, inflammatory reaction to extravasated mucin, rarely sarcoidosis (Am J Gastroenterol 1998;93:1949)
