Research Article

Allergic Mastocytic Gastroenteritis and Colitis: An Unexplained Etiology in Chronic Abdominal Pain and Gastrointestinal Dysmotility

Table 4

Summary of the GI tract biopsy/CD117 staining results: number of mast cells per high power field (hpf).

# Mast cells/hpfStomachSmall BowelColon

Total number of values available162213
Minimum16.030.01.0
25% percentile30.7539.028.0
Median35.548.540.0
75% percentile43.070.047.5
Maximum82.090.068.8333
Mean39.2552.954537.9103
Std. deviation15.762817.510517.177
Std. error3.940713.733254.76404
Lower 95% CI* of mean30.850645.190827.5304
Upper 95% CI* of mean47.649460.718348.2902

*CI: confidence interval.