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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. 2017 Jan;64(1):e14–e16. doi: 10.1097/MPG.0000000000000629

Fig. 2.

Fig. 2

Normal architecture of healthy duodenal villi (a) compared to “tufting” of the duodenal villi (arrows) observed in follow-up biopsies at 2 months of age (b). Electron microscopy of the intestinal tissue demonstrates elongation of the desmosomes (white arrow) typical of Tufting Enteropathy, compared to normal length desmosomes (black arrow) (c).