Inflammatory Bowel DiseaseJoseph B. Kirsner, Roy Gerrard Shorter This text is intended to help provide the practical perspectiv= e practitioners need to manage patients suffering from inflammatory bowel disease. This fourth edition contains 11 new chapters and is illustrated with photographs and detailed line drawings. |
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... Endoscopy , Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography , and Endoscopic Ultrasound Upper endoscopy and colonoscopy are the most commonly used procedures to assess the extent and severity of colonic and upper gas- trointestinal ...
... Endoscopy , Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography , and Endoscopic Ultrasound Upper endoscopy and colonoscopy are the most commonly used procedures to assess the extent and severity of colonic and upper gas- trointestinal ...
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... endoscopic features in obtaining appropriate biopsies . Examples are as follows : 1. If endoscopic features are highly sugges- tive of Crohn's disease such as the focal distribution of aphthoid ulcers , these areas should be sampled . A ...
... endoscopic features in obtaining appropriate biopsies . Examples are as follows : 1. If endoscopic features are highly sugges- tive of Crohn's disease such as the focal distribution of aphthoid ulcers , these areas should be sampled . A ...
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... Endoscopic biopsy of involved mucosa demonstrates characteristic granulomas only in approximately 40 % of cases , but the com- posite histologic features of Crohn's disease , knifelike ulceration , dilatation of submucosal lymphatics ...
... Endoscopic biopsy of involved mucosa demonstrates characteristic granulomas only in approximately 40 % of cases , but the com- posite histologic features of Crohn's disease , knifelike ulceration , dilatation of submucosal lymphatics ...
Contents
Historical Antecedents of Inflammatory | 3 |
The Epidemiology of Idiopathic Inflammatory | 31 |
Naturally Occurring and Experimental Models | 71 |
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