Impact of sampling side of peritoneal biopsies on peritoneal thickness and histopathological diagnosis—A quantitative histological study in body donors

< .05.ConclusionsThe visceral peritoneum differs in thickness form the parietal peritoneum. The sample site of the parietal peritoneum has no effect on the peritoneal thickness. The large intraindividual variation in the peritoneal thickness require large cohorts to detect longitudinal change of the peritoneum. Despite the limitation that it remains uncertain if these results from body donors can be assumed to be true in ex-vivo biopsies, it seems prudent to state that interpreting sequential peritoneal biopsies in single patients or small case series should be interpreted with caution.