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Inflammatory Bowel Disease

The Distinction between Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis

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Modern Concepts in Gastroenterology

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Abstract

Ulcerative colitis, since its original description in 1865 in the Union Army,1 has emerged as a heterogeneous collection of inflammatory bowel disorders recognized and separated from the parent group by the identification of a variety of clinicopathological features and most important by the exclusion of specific infectious agents. Today, ulcerative colitis remains an idiopathic entity requiring for diagnosis the exclusion of specific etiological agents and the evaluation of a combination of clinical, radiographic, endoscopic, and histological features.2

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    William C. Watson M.D.

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Freeman, H.J. (1986). Inflammatory Bowel Disease. In: Thomson, A.B.R., DaCosta, L.R., Watson, W.C. (eds) Modern Concepts in Gastroenterology. Topics in Gastroenterology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1789-0_7

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