1.   The researchers take a small biopsy the size of a pea.

2.   A small intestinal biopsy specimen was taken from the third part of the duodenum, and routinely processed for histological examination.

3.   Small intestinal biopsy specimens were histologically normal in the coeliac disease patients on a gluten free diet and in the symptomatic control group.

4.   A small intestinal biopsy specimen was obtained in another only when diarrhoes developed.

5.   These findings almost certainly reflect an increased awareness of coeliac disease in recent years and the greater use of fibre optic endoscopes to obtain small intestinal biopsy specimens.

6.   A mild to moderate enteropathy was present in all nine children undergoing a small intestinal biopsy and seven showed the presence of Cryptosporidium adhering to villous epithelium.