TY - JOUR T1 - Congenital microvillous atrophy: specific diagnostic features. JF - Archives of Disease in Childhood JO - Arch Dis Child SP - 135 LP - 140 DO - 10.1136/adc.60.2.135 VL - 60 IS - 2 AU - A D Phillips AU - P Jenkins AU - F Raafat AU - J A Walker-Smith Y1 - 1985/02/01 UR - http://adc.bmj.com/content/60/2/135.abstract N2 - Proximal small intestinal and colonoscopic mucosal biopsies from two children with the intractable diarrhea of infancy syndrome were examined by electron microscopy. Microvillous involutions were found in the small and large bowel of both patients. We suggest that this is a specific diagnostic finding for congenital microvillous atrophy, a distinct disorder within the intractable diarrhoea syndrome which has an extremely poor prognosis. ER -