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Chronic idiopathic inflammatory bowel diseases; IBD
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Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) is a group of chronic idiopathic inflammatory conditions that affect mainly the small intestine and the colon. The two major types are ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn’s disease (CD). There is a genetic predisposition for IBD, and patients with this condition are more prone to the development of malignancy. Further types to be considered are indeterminate colitis (IC) and inflammatory bowel disease unclassified (IBDU). These are essentially “temporary diagnoses” when the difference between UC and CD cannot be established definitely at the time of presentation. IC should be used when examination of surgical samples is available together with clinical, serological, and imaging data, while IBDU is used for patients from whom only endoscopic biopsy samples are available. Many of the patients classified as “Indeterminate Colitis” present clinically with severe disease. Other chronic...
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Geboes, K. (2017). Inflammatory Bowel Disease. In: Carneiro, F., Chaves, P., Ensari, A. (eds) Pathology of the Gastrointestinal Tract. Encyclopedia of Pathology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40560-5_1490
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