Microvillous Inclusion Disease: Report of a Case with Atypical Features
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Microvillous inclusion disease is a rare lethal disorder characterized by intractable, severe, watery diarrhea beginning in early infancy. The underlying defect is thought to be an autosomal recessive genetic abnormality resulting in defective brush-border assembly and differentiation. Normally, this diagnosis is easily established through the electron microscopic demonstration of characteristic microvilli-lined inclusions lying within the apical cytoplasm of surface enterocytes. In a small number of patients appearing to have microvillous inclusion disease it has not proven possible to demonstrate the typical inclusions. The existence of another entity, termed intestinal microvillous dystrophy, has been proposed to account for such occurrences. This assertion was founded in large part upon the observation that the few subjects studied all displayed a slightly atypical clinical presentation. The case now being presented exhibited the morphologic features ascribed to intestinal microvillous dystrophy but had a clinical presentation that was entirely typical of microvillous inclusion disease. It serves thus to conceptually unite intestinal microvillous dystrophy with microvillous inclusion disease.
Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.
How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".