Low-power view of a small bowel biopsy from a patient with celiac disease. The mucosa is flat with complete loss of the normal villous architecture.
Courtesy of Robert Odze, MD.
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Normal small intestine
Low-power (left) and high-power (right) views of the normal villous architecture of the small intestine. The high-power view shows the enterocytes and interspersed goblet cells (arrows).