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Clinical Chemistry 54: 444-445, 2008; 10.1373/clinchem.2007.099341
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(Clinical Chemistry. 2008;54:444-445.)
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Robin G. Lorenz

University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL.

Address correspondence to the author at: University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1825 University Blvd., SHEL 602, Birmingham, AL 35294-2182. Fax 205-996-9113; e-mail rlorenz@uab.edu.

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The gold standard for diagnosis of celiac disease (CD) requires both a duodenal biopsy showing villus blunting, crypt hyperplasia, and increased numbers of intraepithelial lymphocytes (IELs) and a subsequent small intestinal biopsy that shows resolution of these histological findings after the patient is put on a gluten-free diet (1). The development of new serological tests, however, . . . [Full Text of this Article]







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