We thank Gut for requesting responses to this letter from Oberhuber and colleagues.1 We were amazed that they chose to dismiss our intraepithelial lymphocytes (IEL) data as invalid2 on grounds of not being age/gender matched with controls. But this disregards all the other data of clinicians and pathologists in the field, and the rigorous reviewing processes that our article went through before publication in Gut . This dismissal reflects an aberrant viewpoint1 lacking widespread support. In real life, pathologists do sign off biopsies, while diagnoses are rendered without full clinical details, although with appropriately worded caveats. We aimed, specifically, to reduce the enormous …

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腹腔活检：数字有效，字母无效

我们感谢 Gut 要求回复 Oberhuber 及其同事的这封信。1 我们惊讶于他们选择将我们的上皮内淋巴细胞 (IEL) 数据视为无效2，理由是年龄/性别与对照不匹配。但这忽略了该领域临床医生和病理学家的所有其他数据，以及我们的文章在发表于 Gut 之前经历的严格审查过程。这种驳回反映了一种缺乏广泛支持的异常观点1。在现实生活中，病理学家确实会签署活组织检查，而在没有完整临床细节的情况下做出诊断，尽管有适当措辞的警告。我们的目标是，特别是减少巨大的……