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Intestinal Lymphangiectasia

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Endoscopically, the villi of the small bowel in intestinal lymphangiectasia typically appear white and may be swollen [1, 2]. Less commonly, tiny white spots are visible in the mucosa. The whitish discoloration of the villi is caused by chylomicrons, which accumulate in and obstruct the dilated lymphatic capillaries. These changes can also be demonstrated histologically. Lymphangiectasia is characterized endoscopically as localized, patchy, or diffuse. Diffuse lymphangiectasia causes the mucosa to appear “snow covered” or “dusted with powdered sugar” at endoscopy.

The work was first published in 2006 by Springer Medizin Verlag Heidelberg with the following title: Atlas of Video Capsule Endoscopy.

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  1. Department of Gastroenterology, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden

    Ervin Tóth

  2. Department of Gastroenterology, Allgemeines Krankenhaus Celle, Celle, Germany

    Felix Wiedbrauck

  3. LebensBlicke Foundation for Prevention of Colorectal Cancer, Ludwigshafen, Germany

    Jürgen F. Riemann

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  1. Department of Internal Medicine, Bethesda Krankenhaus Bergedorf, Academic Teaching Hospital of the University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

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  2. 1st Medical Department, Asklepios Klinik Altona, Academic Teaching Hospital of the University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

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  3. Dept. Internal Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

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Tóth, E., Wiedbrauck, F., Riemann, J.F. (2014). Intestinal Lymphangiectasia. In: Keuchel, M., Hagenmüller, F., Tajiri, H. (eds) Video Capsule Endoscopy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44062-9_22

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