RT Book, Section
A1 Hoffenberg, Edward
A1 Flass, Thomas
A2 Bishop, Warren P.
SR Print(0)
ID 55942074
T1 Chapter 18. Celiac Disease
T2 Pediatric Practice: Gastroenterology
YR 2010
FD 2010
PB The McGraw-Hill Companies
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-163379-6
LK accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=55942074
RD 2024/04/17
AB Celiac  disease  (CD)  is  “a  permanent  sensitivity  to  gluten  in  wheat  and  related  proteins  found  in  barley  and  rye,  occurring  in  genetically  susceptible  individuals,  and  manifesting  as  an  immune  mediated  enteropathy  as  defined  by  characteristic  changes  seen  on  intestinal  histology.”1  A  conservative  definition  requires  the  following: