Diagnosing Eosinophilic Colitis: Histopathological Pattern or Nosological Entity?

Table 2

Eosinophilic colitis in the literature.

Author(s)	Age in years (y) or months (m)	Sex	Eosinophil numbers
Melton et al. [35]	2 m, 4 m, 3 y, 53 y, 73 y	all M	>20/HPF
Yamada et al. [36]	8 m, 2 m, 3 m, 8 m, neonate	3 M, 2 F	No quantification
Basilious and Liem [37]	9 y, 9 y, 5 y	2 M, 1 F	Up to 60/HPF
Lee and Kim [22]	50 y	F	>30/HPF
Durilova et al. [38]	1–12 m	13 M, 7 F	No quantification; no biopsies in some cases
Piscaglia et al. [39]	46 y	M	No quantification
Chen et al. [40]	53 y	M	No quantification
Shim et al. [41]	83 y	F	>100/HPF
Sussman et al. [42]	52 y	M	“Multiple”
Ertuğrul et al. [43]	46 y	F	“Clusters”
Velchuru et al. [44]	48 y	F	80/HPF (colectomy)
Lee et al. [45]	11 m, 6 m, 5 m, 2 y, 7 m, 7 m, 7 m, 8 m, 10 m, 18 m, 9 m, 1 y, 7 m, 11 m	4 M, 9 F	>15/HPF in rectum
Ohtsuka et al. [46]	Infants	1 M, 1 F	“Massive”
Lewis et al. [47]	78 y	F	“Numerous”
Inamura et al. [48]	35 y	M	“Numerous”
Kandaswamy et al. [49]	65 y	M	No quantification
Saeed et al. [30]	3 y, 4 y, 8 y	all M	“Raised”
Sierra Salinas et al. [50]	Infants	8 M, 5 F	“Increased” only 9 of 13 were biopsied
Yassin et al. [51]	35 y	M	“Heavy”
Jiménez-Sáenz et al. [52]	31 y	F	>120/HPF
Da Silva et al. [53]	Not specified		Not specified
Amin et al. [54]	37 y	M	“Many”
Karmacharya et al. [55]	45 y	M	“Patchy eosinophilic infiltrate”
Suresh et al. [56]	38 y	M	“Varying numbers”
Atkinson et al. [57]	33 y	F	“Significant”
Inamura et al. [58]	28 y	M	“Numerous”
Ashida et al. [59]	29 y	F	Not quantified
Uchida et al. [60]	48 y	M	“Remarkable”
Katsinelos et al. [61]	72 y	F	“Intense”
Lee et al. [62]	43 y	F	Not quantified
Peršić et al. [63]	8 y	M	“Mainly” eosinophils
Anveden-Herzberg et al. [64]	Infants	5 M, 4 F	>50/HPF
Tajima and Katagiri [65]	44 y	M	Not quantified
Lange et al. [32]	51 y	F	Not quantified
Fraile et al. [66]	38 y	M	Not quantified
Anttila and Valtonen [31]	57 y	M	34/HPF
Bridges et al. [29]	57 y	F	Not quantified
Dunstone [4]	17 y	M	“Considerable numbers”