Tufting enteropathy with EpCAM mutation: case report

• Main Authors: Karla Lais Pêgas (Author), Eduardo Cambruzzi (Author), Regis Schander Ferrelli (Author), Carolina Soares da Silva (Author), Renata Rostirola Guedes (Author), Marina Adami (Author), Eduardo Montagner Dias (Author), Melina Utz Melere (Author), Marilia Rosso Ceza (Author), Cintia Steinhaus (Author), Matias Epifanio (Author), Julie Salomon (Author), Cristina Targa Ferreira (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Patologia Clínica, 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Tufting enteropathy (TE), also known as intestinal epithelial dysplasia (IED), is a rare congenital enteropathy related to an earlyonset of severe intractable diarrhea due to specific abnormalities of the intestinal epithelium and mutations of the EpCAM gene. TE is characterized by clinical and hist...