1980
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2133.1980.tb15849.x
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Effect of Gluten-free diet on recurrent aphthous ulceration

Abstract: Ferguson et al. (1976) found that eight out of thirty‐three patients presenting with recurrent aphthous ulceration (R.A.U.) had jejunal mucosal features of coeliac disease; their oral ulceration remitted on a gluten‐free diet. We have studied eighteen consecutive R.A.U. patients using standard haematological and biochemical parameters of malabsorption, including a xylose tolerance test. Twelve of the patients consented to a jejunal biopsy, following which they were placed on a gluten‐free diet for 3 months. Th… Show more

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