Abstract
Macroscopic oral lesions have been described in 4–9% of patients with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis (1). More recently apparently disease specific immunofluorescent changes have been found in biopsies of macroscopically normal mouths in Crohn’s patients (2). The present study was carried out to compare the histology of macroscopically uninvolved oral mucosa and minor salivary glands from Crohn’s patients, with that from patients with ulcerative colitis and also normal controls. We have also tried to determine the disease specificity of the immunofluorescence staining.
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Basu, M.K., Chesner, I.M., Thompson, R.A., Asquith, P. (1981). Significance of Lip Biopsies in the Diagnosis of Crohn’s Disease [Routine Histology and Immunofluorescence]. In: Peña, A.S., Weterman, I.T., Booth, C.C., Strober, W. (eds) Recent Advances in Crohn’s Disease. Developments in Gastroenterology, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8273-4_11
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