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Fig. 5

From: Imbalanced mucosal microcirculation in the remission stage of ulcerative colitis using probe-based confocal laser endomicroscopy

Fig. 5

Type D of mucosal blood flow. a and b are type D blood flow, which only occurs in the affected Mayo score 1 segments of UC patients. a shows a blood flow that is squeezed and interrupted by many inflammatory cells that have infiltrated into the lamina propria interstitial space (as indicated by the arrowhead) and is accompanied by a leakage of fluorescein in the glandular tube (as indicated by the arrow). b shows that there is a large amount of fluorescein leakage in the lamina propria interstitial space; in this background, we can see some capillaries with no blood flow (as indicated by the arrowhead), while in the others the fluorescein is fully filled (as indicated by the arrow). That is, blood flow is obviously uneven and “short circuit” blood flow emerges

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