Front | What is Crohn's disease? |
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Back | regional enteritis, granulomatous ileitis or ileocolitis |
Personal Notes | choroba Lefniowskiego-Crohna (Lesniowski-Crohn disease); regionalne zapalenie jelit, ziarniniakowe zapalenie jelita krętego lub zapalenie jelita krętego The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy (to be used by doctors) describes Crohn's disease as "a nonspecific chronic transmural inflammatory disease that most commonly affects the distal ileum and colon but may occur in any part of the GI tract" The Merck Manual of Medical Information (Home Edition designed for patients) simply states that Crohn's disease "is a chronic inflammation of the intestinal wall that may affect any part of the digestive tract" |
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