Phlebosclerotic colitis that was difficult to distinguish from collagenous colitis

• DOI: 10.1111/den.12151
• Publication Date: 2013-08-01T04:46:31Z
• Authors: Hideaki Hozumi; Ryota Hokari; Motonori Shimizu; Koji Maruta; Kazuyuki Narimatsu; Hirokazu Sato; Shingo Sato; Toshihide Ueda; Masaaki Higashiyama; Chikako Watanabe; Shunsuke Komoto; Kengo Tomita; Atsushi Kawaguchi; Shigeaki Nagao; Soichiro Miura
• Keywords: Collagenous Colitis

Phlebosclerotic colitis is a rare and recently known disease entity its etiology still to be elucidated. Some phlebosclerotic cases are difficult distinguish from collagenous because of the similarity pathological findings. In all J apanese case reports in which an association with use C hinese herbal medicine suspected, sansisi (gardenia fruit) was included, suggesting pathogenesis this disease. We report that wasdifficult distinguished colitis, suspected as cause