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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Page 177
... histologic and functional char- acteristics of the intestinal inflammatory response are determined more by anatomic lo- cation and by the acuteness or chronicity of the response than by the initiating agent . The major reason for the ...
... histologic and functional char- acteristics of the intestinal inflammatory response are determined more by anatomic lo- cation and by the acuteness or chronicity of the response than by the initiating agent . The major reason for the ...
Page 537
... histologically be- tween acute ulcerative colitis and low - grade is- chemic colitis or Crohn's disease if the lesion is segmented . The subsequent clinical course provides better differentiation than does evo- lution of the histologic ...
... histologically be- tween acute ulcerative colitis and low - grade is- chemic colitis or Crohn's disease if the lesion is segmented . The subsequent clinical course provides better differentiation than does evo- lution of the histologic ...
Page 577
... histologic features of Crohn's disease , knifelike ulceration , dilatation of submucosal lymphatics , and prominent lymphoid aggre- gates , in addition to granulomas , help estab- lish the diagnosis . Despite the low incidence of ...
... histologic features of Crohn's disease , knifelike ulceration , dilatation of submucosal lymphatics , and prominent lymphoid aggre- gates , in addition to granulomas , help estab- lish the diagnosis . Despite the low incidence of ...
Contents
Historical Antecedents of Inflammatory | 3 |
The Epidemiology of Idiopathic Inflammatory | 31 |
Naturally Occurring and Experimental Models | 71 |
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