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Inflammatory Bowel Disease : an Atlas of Investigation and Management
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Orchard, Timothy R.
- Series:
- Atlas: IBD
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Inflammatory bowel diseases--Atlases.
- Inflammatory bowel diseases.
- Inflammatory Bowel Diseases.
- Medical Subjects:
- Inflammatory Bowel Diseases.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (113 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Clinical Publishing, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic condition in which the lining of the digestive tract becomes inflamed and covered with ulcers. There are two types of IBD: ulcerative colitis, which causes inflammation and ulcers in the lining of the rectum and colon; and Crohn's disease which causes inflammation deeper within the intestinal wall of the small intestine and can occur in other parts of the digestive system including the mouth, oesophagus, and stomach. Although both conditions are characterized by inflammation and ulceration, they are in fact different disease processes and their tre
- Contents:
- Contents; Contributors; Abbreviations; Part 1: DIAGNOSIS AND MANAGEMENT OF INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE; Chapter 1: Introduction: aetiology and clinical presentation; Chapter 2: Investigations at diagnosis; Chapter 3: Pathology of inflammatory bowel disease; Chapter 4: Management of inflammatory bowel disease; Part 2: COMPLICATIONS ANDCOMORBIDITIES; Chapter 5: Acute, severe colitis; Chapter 6: Perianal and fistulizing Crohn's disease; Chapter 7: Microscopic colitis; Chapter 8; Fertility and inflammatory bowel disease; Chapter 9: Extraintestinal manifestations
- Chapter 10: Malignancy ininflammatory boweldiseasePart 3: OVERVIEW OF THERAPEUTICMODALITIES IN INFLAMMATORYBOWEL DISEASE; Chapter 11: Drugs for inflammatory bowel disease; Chapter 12: Surgery in inflammatory bowel disease; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-14678-9
- 9786613146786
- 1-84692-506-1
- OCLC:
- 735622707
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