Service d'Anatomie Pathologique, France.
All over the causes of intractable diarrhea of infancy, microvillous inclusion disease is a rare congenital defect of intestinal brush border of unknown aetiology. An autosomal recessive inheritance is suggested by cases occurring in siblings and high incidence of consanguinity. The prognosis of the disease is extremely poor, as life can be sustained only by total parenteral nutrition. Combined bowel-liver or bowel transplantation is regarded as the only potentially life-saving therapy. We report a case of microvillous atrophy who undergone a combined bowel, colonic and liver transplantation, and discuss the tools allowing the light microscopic diagnosis.