Diagnostic Yield of Routine Duodenal Biopsies in Iron Deficiency Anemia for Celiac Disease Diagnosis

<table class="table-group" id="tab3"><tr><td><table class="table"><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="4"><hr/></td></tr><tr class="thead"><td align="left"> </td><td align="center">Severe lesions</td><td align="center">Minimal lesions </td><td align="center">Total (<i>n</i>)</td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="4"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td align="left">Endoscopic lesions of CD</td><td align="center">3</td><td align="center">5</td><td align="center">8</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Normal endoscopy                          </td><td align="center">11</td><td align="center">10</td><td align="center">21</td></tr><tr><td align="left" colspan="4"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td align="left">Total (<i>n</i>)</td><td align="center">14</td><td align="center">15</td><td align="center">29</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="4"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

Endoscopic aspect correlated to histologic diagnosis in patients with CD “Kappa = −0.167”.

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Table 3: Diagnostic Yield of Routine Duodenal Biopsies in Iron Deficiency Anemia for Celiac Disease Diagnosis 