Table III.
Ulcerative colitis pathological scoring standard.
| Pathological morphology | Score |
|---|---|
| Destruction of epithelium and glands | |
| Morphologically normal | 0 |
| Focal destruction of the epithelial surface and/or focal crypt dropout | 1 |
| Zonal destruction of the epithelial surface and/or zonal crypt loss | 2 |
| Diffuse and/or mucosal ulceration involving submucosa and/or diffuse crypt losses | 3 |
| Dilatation of glandular crypts | |
| Normal | 0 |
| Focal dilatation | 1 |
| Zonal dilatation | 2 |
| Dilated crypts | 3 |
| Depletion and loss of goblet cells | |
| Normal | 0 |
| Slightly depleted goblet cells | 1 |
| Zonal or moderately depleted goblet cells | 2 |
| Diffusely or completely depleted goblet cells | 3 |
| Inflammatory cell infiltration | |
| Absence of infiltrate | 0 |
| Infiltrate at the subepithelial and lamina propria level or crypt bases | 1 |
| Infiltrate reaching muscularis mucosae | 2 |
| Severe and extensive infiltrate reaching submucosa and/or involving muscularis propria | 3 |
| Edema | |
| Absent | 0 |
| Focal | 1 |
| Zonal and/or moderately diffuse | 2 |
| Extensive or severe | 3 |
| Vascular congestion | |
| Absent | 0 |
| Focal | 1 |
| Zonal | 2 |
| Diffuse | 3 |
| Crypt abscesses | |
| Absent | 0 |
| Focal | 1 |
| Zonal | 2 |
| Diffuse | 3 |
| Atrophia | |
| Absent | 0 |
| Focal | 1 |
| Zonal | 2 |
| Diffuse | 3 |